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

Prehistoric squirrel droppings were analyzed and found to contain genetic material of numerous ice-age beasts, plants, ...

Ancient squirrel poo doesn’t stink. At least not at first. But that changes when you begin to break down the pellets. Melting ...

Scientists have reconstructed genomes of woolly mammoths, horses, steppe bison and ground squirrels that roamed the ...

Ancient poop left behind by Arctic ground squirrels ended up containing a remarkable array of genetic information, a study ...

Frozen ancient squirrel feces from Canada's Yukon have revealed a lost Ice Age world. These coprolites, dating back up to 700 ...

The latest Yukon find—frozen ground squirrel droppings—may not seem as glamorous as the other specimens, but it’s offering up ...

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

In an extraordinary breakthrough for paleogenomics, scientists have uncovered a pristine genetic archive hidden within ...

DNA preserved in 700,000-year-old squirrel droppings uncovered mammoths and other species, providing a detailed view of an ...

A huge treasure trove of ancient DNA from animals including extinct woolly mammoths has been discovered in frozen squirrel ...

A sealed vial of sediment pulled from Yukon permafrost does not look like a breakthrough. It looks like dirt until the sequencing results arrive. Inside it, scientists from institutions including ...