700,000-year-old poop tells rich story of a lost Ice Age world (opens in new tab)

One of the world's oldest turds has been given the royal science treatment, with ancient Arctic ground squirrel droppings offering a smorgasbord of DNA from other animals and plants dating back up to 700,000 years.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: McMaster University, DNA, Wildlife, Animal science, Animals, ancient, Wooly mammoth