A neighborhood group in Philadelphia is asking opponents of a proposed apartment building to mail in poop samples as part of a study on how gentrification impacts cancer rates. "To fight ...

It was a story that begged for a punny headline, and journalists didn't fail to deliver. But as I mentioned in a follow-up Medtech Unfiltered video, the uBiome story was more than just a good poop ...

ORLANDO, Florida — At more than 26 inches long and 20-plus pounds, Barnum is the world record holder for the largest recorded pieces of feces ever made by a carnivore, laid by a Tyrannosaurus rex as ...

A Michigan man devised a smelly way to resolve a property dispute with his neighbor — by erecting a 250-foot-long wall of cow poop between their homes. “Normally they spread it on the field, but they ...

For years, scientists have been wondering why wombat poop is cube-shaped (yes, really). Now, they say they have got to the bottom of the mystery. Bare-nosed wombats, or common wombats, can be found in ...

In further evidence that microplastics have thoroughly polluted every corner of the Earth, scientists now report they have discovered it in newborns’ first feces. In a disturbing new pilot study ...

The popular children's book "Everyone Poops" details what every human and animal does. But what the book may not detail is that one animal's waste is actually good for the environment. Marine ...

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I am ticked off at pet owners who “train” their dogs to poop in their neighbors’ yards. They walk them around the neighborhood so they can poop in my yard instead of training them to poop in their own ...

Whales might poop more than scientists previously thought. That’s one conclusion of a paper published Wednesday in Nature, in which researchers spied on baleen whales with suction-cup sensors and ...

Like other herbivores, Elway, a San Clemente Island goat at the Santa Barbara Zoo, can extract energy-rich molecules from cellulose to fuel its activities. And he’s particularly good at it. Goats have ...

Ancient Iron Age miners in what is now Austria were quite fond of beer and blue cheese, according to a new analysis, published in the journal Current Biology, of preserved paleo-poop. The researchers ...