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 ...

Scientists have reconstructed genomes of woolly mammoths, horses, steppe bison and ground squirrels that roamed the grasslands of the Canadian Arctic as far back as 700,000 years ago using DNA found ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ground squirrels go into a hibernation state called torpor for up to eight months. (Alaeddin Cogal/Anadolu via Getty Images) ...

Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, and Denis Leary all hit the stage at CinemaCon to talk about the return of Ice Age. The franchise is somehow coming out with a sixth film called Ice Age: Boiling Point, ...

20th Century Studios revealed the first trailer for Ice Age: Boiling Point at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 16. The film, which is the first Ice Age theatrical release in over a decade, has given a ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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 ...

20th Century Studios revealed the first trailer for Ice Age: Boiling Point at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 16. The film, which is the first Ice Age theatrical release in over a decade, has given a ...