An artist’s reconstruction of Pleistocene Yukon shows Arctic ground squirrels scavenging meat and foraging on plants within the mammoth-steppe ecosystem. Ancient DNA from their preserved burrows and ...

Ancient squirrel poop provides a snapshot of life during the last ice age. And, how different types of laughter originate in ...

In an extraordinary breakthrough for paleogenomics, scientists have uncovered a pristine genetic archive hidden within 700,000-year-old squirrel poop preserved deep inside the Canadian permafrost. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s reconstruction of Pleistocene Yukon, showing Arctic ground squirrels scavenging meat and foraging on plants within the ...

Scientists have reconstructed genomes of woolly mammoths, horses, steppe bison and ground squirrels that roamed the grasslands of the Canadian Arctic during the last ice age using DNA found in frozen ...