Once upon a time, Comedy Central's "Nathan for You" ruled its own little space in the comedy world. But just how "real" was the series actually?

Ancient poop left behind by Arctic ground squirrels ended up containing a remarkable array of genetic information, a study says. Reading time 2 minutes Arctic ground squirrels will eat just about ...

Scientists have reconstructed genomes of woolly mammoths, horses, steppe bison and ground squirrels that roamed the grasslands of the Canadian Arctic as far back as 700,000 years ago using DNA found ...

The poop-gravity relationship goes way deep. OR The unassuming lugworm releases gravity-defying poop—something that ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As permafrost thaws, it peels back the curtain on ancient life. In the Yukon’s warming tundra, for example, paleontologists have ...

Ancient squirrel poop provides a snapshot of life during the last ice age. And, how different types of laughter originate in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s reconstruction of Pleistocene Yukon, showing Arctic ground squirrels scavenging meat and foraging on plants within the ...