We may turn up our noses at poo, but manure makes the natural world work. Poo is the waste matter all living things excrete from their bodies. Each kind of animal makes a slightly different sort, ...

Researchers studying North American river otters in Chesapeake Bay used scat analysis to uncover clues about their diet, social behavior, and use of coastal habitats. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists ...

The Below Deck Mediterranean crew is used to some difficult charter guests causing a stink — metaphorically, that is — but nothing could have prepared them for when someone pooped in their shower and ...

A caganer is a typical fixture of Catalan Christmas (Josep Lago via Getty Images) “This is my little brother’s favourite thing in my house,” Lamine Yamal says to the camera. In a YouTube video ...

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

Most people have a preferred way of communication—phone, text, email—but bare-nosed wombats have an unusual way of relaying information. The Australian marsupial communicates by … there's no delicate ...

You may be sitting on – so to speak – a very valuable asset that scientists would love to get their hands on: your poop. As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool ...

Nadeem O. Kaakoush receives funding from Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council, and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation (US). BiomeBank and Centre for Digestive Diseases, mentioned ...

As Mathilde Poyet ushers me through the Global Microbiome Conservancy’s laboratory in Kiel, Germany, I’m met with all sorts of state-of-the-art equipment. It’s an impressive facility, with typical lab ...

If you’ve never seen a Shih-Poo in a corset, here you go. Max, the Shih-Poo impresses with his manners and style at the vet. His human-like face and expressive personality delight his more than 200k ...

"Ghost poop" is a bowel movement that seemingly disappears without a trace after you flush the toilet. There’s no sign of it either in the toilet paper that you used to wipe your butt or in the toilet ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...