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 ...
Attention editors: Embargoed by the journal Nature Communications until June 09, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. (US Eastern Time) Newswise — Hamilton, ON, June 9, 2026 – Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for ...
Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon's deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of environmental DNA from dozens of species of plants, insects, microbes and large ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic reconstruction. Fossilized squirrel droppings reveal ancient ecosystems, offering rare genetic insights into life during ...
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 ...
Frozen deep beneath the Yukon’s permafrost, small pellets left behind by ancient ground squirrels have preserved a record of life that stretches back hundreds of thousands of years. What appears ...