The next stop took the researchers to wombat latrines so they could gather up some poop cubes and figure out their chemical ...

A lot of things will lie to you in your life, but not poop. Close examination of animal scat will help you identify not only the species but how recently the animal was there, its sex, what it ate, ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

Most people have a preferred way of communication—phone, text, email—but bare-nosed wombats have an unusual way of relaying ...

Mother Nature doesn’t really care if something looks cute or gross. If it works, it works. And when it comes to raising ...

Chinese researchers have mapped an enormous collection of unknown microbes hidden inside the animals that roam the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, revealing biological functions that could power the next ...

WILLIAMS, Ariz. (AP) — One way to help tell how a Tyrannosaurus rex digested food is to look at its poop. Bone fragments in a piece of fossilized excrement at a new museum in northern Arizona — aptly ...

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a nutrient-rich environment for life to thrive despite glacier loss. Climate change is ...

WILLIAMS, Ariz. (AP) — One way to help tell how a Tyrannosaurus rex digested food is to look at its poop. Bone fragments in a piece of fossilized excrement at a new museum in northern Arizona — aptly ...