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Frozen Poop Reveals the Wild Diet of Ice Age Squirrels!

Photo: Bob Walker / Unsplash
Scientists have found super-old squirrel poop frozen in the chilly ground, and it is packed with secrets from thousands of years ago! This ancient poop contains DNA [the tiny biological recipe that makes up every living thing] showing that these fuzzy creatures gobbled up everything from wild grasses to woolly mammoths. Who would have guessed that a tiny backyard squirrel was once chewing on a giant mammoth?
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Science News for Students
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