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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 ...

It may not be glamorous, but examining animal poop provides a wealth of information about the fauna, and the fecal samples don't have to be fresh. While digging in the unglaciated eastern Beringia — a ...

In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including mammoths, bison and saber-toothed cats. By Kate Golembiewski See more of our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers document a cluster of ancient Arctic ground squirrel faecal pellets preserved in permafrost at Hunker Creek, Yukon, in ...

The coprolites, recovered from the ancient dens of Urocitellus ground squirrels, are between 30,000 and 700,000 years old and yielded environmental DNA from other species of plants, microbes, insects ...