“The fresh fecal smell is a sign of science. The pellets contain fragments of DNA from the squirrels’ diet that paint a picture of the animals’ ecosystems in new detail”
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DNA preserved in ancient scat reveals what Yukon ground squirrels ate and what animals shared their world.
