Ancient squirrel feces offer ‘time capsule’ of environment thousands of years ago

A researcher in British Columbia recently discovered that ancient squirrel scat can still smell just as fresh today as it did some 700,000 years ago.

Tyler Murchie, a scientist with the Hakai Institute, says the dung preserved by permafrost and collected in ground squirrel burrows in Yukon didn’t smell like anything at first, but once […] ...