Scientists have analyzed squirrel poo that was frozen in the permafrost for thousands of years.
The pellets were full of eDNA from plants! Insects! Fungi!
And MAMMOTHS. And horses.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/frozen-squirrel-poop-ice-age-ecosystems
Bethany Brookshire
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