The author and his buddies floated into a nightmare of endless bogs, muck, and Florida swamp. But their efforts were well worth it ...

New research suggests seabird guano helped transform the Chincha Kingdom into one of the most prosperous societies in ancient Peru. Chemical clues in centuries-old maize show farmers fertilized their ...

Coyotes have moved into South Florida in recent decades, and they’ve found a bounty of invasive and non-native species to ...

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Hundreds of thousands of years ago, deep in the mountains of the Yukon, a ground squirrel pooped. That scat stayed frozen for millenia—until very recently, when researchers thawed it out and realized ...

Zombie-esque squirrels covered in oozing, wart-like tumors have been invading backyards across the United States and the reason behind the deformities is likely the species’ version of herpes, ...

A handout illustration obtained on February 17, 2021 by Nature magazine, represents a reconstruction of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly mammoth, based on the genetic knowledge we now have ...

In Canada's far north, a surprising discovery: fossilized feces of arctic ground squirrels contain DNA from woolly mammoths and other ice age animals. These droppings, hundreds of thousands of years ...

A huge treasure trove of ancient DNA from animals including extinct woolly mammoths has been discovered in frozen squirrel faeces in Canada’s remote Yukon territory, scientists said recently. The DNA ...