This must be a snorkeler’s worst nightmare! But all animals have to poop somehow and that is as true for whale sharks as for ...

Wombats are one of the only animals on Earth that produce cube-shaped poop - and for years, scientists had no idea how it was ...

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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 ...

The wombat’s intestine does something no other gut on Earth does. Understanding why reveals how deeply evolution can sculpt even the most intimate biology.

What’s the deal with scat? When animals well, you know, poop, they release organic matter which can contain diseases, phosphorus, and even fragments of DNA. Scientifically, animal poop is referred to ...

Feces are a valuable tool in the world of animal identification. It might sound gross, but it’s one of the best ways to determine an animal’s behavior. An animal’s poop, known as scat, tells you where ...

For humans, feces are last on the list of things we’d place near our mouth. In the animal world, that reaction does not always apply. Coprophagy is the act of eating feces, and for many species it ...

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.