A Tennessee-based social media food critic revealed she recently came down with a “miserable” bout of cyclosporiasis that ...

Nearly 540 million years ago, the Cambrian explosion happened when life exploded and expanded dramatically. Scientists now have a cause for it - poop. A study published in Trends in Ecology & ...

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 ...

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

As animals became more abundant and evolved more sophisticated digestive systems, they were able to produce more fecal matter ...

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

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 ...