In Canada's far north, a surprising discovery: fossilized feces of arctic ground squirrels contain DNA from woolly mammoths and other ice age animals. These droppings, hundreds of thousands of years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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There are many intriguing facts about squirrels—some of which you likely have never even heard before. Squirrels are far more than just those cute creatures who wreak havoc in your garden or cause ...