Ira Glass
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Very good.
Here is your next Limerick.
Mammoth?
Woolly mammoth, yes.
Scientists were able to extract DNA from ancient squirrel feces, something these scientists did voluntarily.
and discovered that back in the Ice Age, squirrels ate mammoth meat and saber-toothed tiger meat.
It's true.
Wow, how the mighty have fallen.
You used to eat mammoth.
I just saw you eat a bagel out of a dumpster.
Have some dignity.
There's another finding, too.
This is a little terrifying.
It finds out that even after tens of thousands of years, the ancient squirrel feces still stank.
According to one researcher, quote, I did not think 700,000-year-old poop would smell anymore, but it was intense.
Can you imagine how difficult things were back then?
Like somebody light a match.
We can't.
We've never invented fire.
That's not how smell works.