Frozen squirrel poop hints at sights and smells of Ice Age ecosystems
The tiny frozen pellets are storehouses of DNA from the rodents’ diverse diets
Paleogenomics researcher Danielle Grant, suited up to avoid contaminating ancient poo with any modern genes, loads fecal samples into a centrifuge to extract ancient DNA fragments.
Bennett Whitnell/Hakai Institute
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