In the first 20 million years of the Cambrian period, Earth experienced an explosion of life—a great evolutionary era dubbed ...

Life as we know it wouldn’t be what is today without a lot of poop. In fact, Earth may have never hosted any life at all ...

A Tennessee-based social media food critic revealed she recently came down with a “miserable” bout of cyclosporiasis that lasted nearly a month and left her afraid to venture too far from the bathroom ...

But now, a review study published today in Trends in Ecology & Evolution hypothesizes that the ecosystem overhaul was also fueled by an explosion of poop.  In a modern ocean, animal excrement is a key ...

As all children learn, everyone poos. But when did this begin? And what evolutionary and environmental changes accompanied ...

Ancient fossilized feces reveal how animal waste helped transform early oceans, feed marine ecosystems, and lock carbon into the deep sea.