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Researchers investigated ancient squirrel poop frozen in permafrost and found enlightening details about the animal's ecosystem

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 ...
Scientific American

Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’

Fossilized poo harbors remains from mammoths, bison and big cats, including some of the oldest DNA ever reconstructed ...

Ancient squirrel droppings reveal 700,000 years of lost ecosystems

Frozen deep beneath the Yukon’s permafrost, small pellets left behind by ancient ground squirrels have preserved a record of ...
Popular Science

700,000-year-old squirrel poop helps scientist recreate an ancient world

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Brave squirrel fights off rattlesnake in dramatic caught-on-camera battle

A dramatic face-off between a squirrel and a rattlesnake at a California wildlife refuge has gone viral after being caught on camera. The showdown happened at the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge ...
The Hill

Ground squirrels are taking over a North Dakota city and officials are not amused

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — The Richardson’s ground squirrel weighs less than a pound, is about a foot long and is native to the northern Plains. The little creature also is a ferocious tunneler, and it’s ...