The Surprising Things You Find Digging Through Frozen Prehistoric Squirrel Poop: The Ice Age rodents left behind a lot to study

A treasure trove of ancient genetic material was stashed away by the rodents before being ‘frozen in time’ by permafrost.

A sealed vial of sediment pulled from Yukon permafrost does not look like a breakthrough. It looks like dirt until the sequencing results arrive.

A huge treasure trove of ancient DNA from animals including extinct woolly mammoths has been discovered in frozen squirrel feces in Canada's remote Yukon territory, scientists…

Ancient poop left behind by Arctic ground squirrels ended up containing a remarkable array of genetic information, a study says.

The Surprising Things You Find Digging Through Frozen Prehistoric Squirrel Poop: The Ice Age rodents left behind a lot to study