The scent of ancient squirrel feces filled the laboratory where researcher Tyler Murchie was working to extract the genetic material it contained, revealing the scat can still smell just as fresh today as it did some 700,000 years ago. The droppings collected from ancient ground squirrel burrows preserved by permafrost for millenniums didn’t smell like The post Ancient squirrel feces a ‘time capsule,’ smelling as fresh as 700,000 years ago appeared first on Medicine Hat News .