A huge treasure trove of ancient DNA from animals including extinct woolly mammoths has been discovered in frozen squirrel ...

Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon's deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of ...

Researchers document a cluster of ancient Arctic ground squirrel faecal pellets preserved in permafrost at Hunker Creek, ...

A groundbreaking use of ancient DNA has led to the proposed identification of Leonard Greene, a colonial settler from ...

The burial site designated No. 56 included a skull and a jumble of arm and leg bones that had been laid to rest in a wooden ...

A complex ecosystem of woolly mammoths, bison, horses and big cats has been elucidated by studying the faeces of small rodents that probably ate the bigger animals ...

B.C. scientists have struck gold in the Yukon’s Klondike region.

Ancient squirrel poo doesn’t stink. At least not at first. But that changes when you begin to break down the pellets. Melting ...

Ancient DNA reveals that cave lions were a distinct evolutionary lineage that split from modern lions more than a million ...