A squirrels ancient food stash buried deep beneath Siberian permafrost has given scientists a rare glimpse into the Ice Age.

B.C. scientists have struck gold in the Yukon’s Klondike region. They’ve discovered what they call a treasure trove of Ice Age DNA information stored in the unlikeliest of places: frozen poop from ...

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, deep in the mountains of the Yukon, a ground squirrel pooped. That scat stayed frozen for millenia—until very recently, when researchers thawed it out and realized ...

Ancient squirrel poo doesn’t stink. At least not at first. But that changes when you begin to break down the pellets. Melting them made it clear that they were not mineralized, stony fossils, says ...