In Canada's far north, a surprising discovery: fossilized feces of arctic ground squirrels contain DNA from woolly mammoths ...

Frozen deep beneath the Yukon’s permafrost, small pellets left behind by ancient ground squirrels have preserved a record of ...

A treasure trove of prehistoric squirrel poop is painting a picture of a lost world. Some of the oldest DNA ever discovered ...

When most people imagine paleontologists at work, they likely envision researchers investigating giant dinosaur fossils or a long-frozen woolly mammoth. Sometimes, however, the best snapshots of ...

There’s a lot you can tell about a squirrel from its droppings, even if they’re 700,000 years old. After collecting ground squirrel droppings preserved in the Yukon permafrost, researchers from ...

McMaster University studied ancient ground squirrel droppings that provided them with one of the oldest collections of DNA ever recovered.

The scent of ancient squirrel feces filled the laboratory where researcher Tyler Murchie was working to extract the genetic material it contained, revealing the scat can still smell just as fresh ...

In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including ...

Squirrel droppings dating back up to 700,000 years have revealed "remarkable" new details about the Arctic's evolutionary history. The dung — preserved for millennia in the deep permafrost of Canada's ...

Scientists have reconstructed genomes of woolly mammoths, horses, steppe bison and ground squirrels that roamed the grasslands of the Canadian Arctic as far back as 700,000 years ago using DNA found ...

It was the poet William Blake who once wrote about seeing a world in a grain of sand. But even Blake must tip his pen to Tyler Murchie, who has seen entire ecosystems, brimming with creatures long ...