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An artist’s reconstruction of Pleistocene Yukon shows Arctic ground squirrels scavenging meat and foraging on plants within the mammoth-steppe ecosystem. Ancient DNA from their preserved burrows and feces reveals this complex food web, where even small rodents fed on megafauna like mammoths. (Mercedes Minck/Hakai Institute) Scientists have reconstructed genomes of …

The NHL team in Salt Lake City is now known as the Utah Mammoth. Owners Ryan and Ashley Smith unveiled the franchise’s permanent name Wednesday after more than a year of fan input and voting. “From Day 1, we committed that this team would be built with and for the …