After braving cold weather and snowy roads on the morning of Jan. 20, visitors to Lake Metroparks’ Jordan Creek Park got the ...

But during expeditions over the last ten years, Schmidt and his collaborators began noticing patches of plants, all of which seemed to have emerged from vicuña poop piles. Working with animal ...

Feces don’t get enough credit as food. The stinky stuff is not just an end product after food gets eaten, digested and finally discarded by animal guts. Poop can also be something nutritious ...

Her students, perhaps unsurprisingly, demonstrated a distinct enthusiasm for hearing more about poop-eating. After Power retired from teaching, she wondered just how many animals ate their own poop.

Wombats, native to Australia, are fascinating creatures with a unique feature that baffles scientists and animal lovers alike: their cube-shaped poop. This oddity has puzzled researchers for years, ...

trying to identify the different scat specimens, so that when people are out in the woods, they can see the remnants that the animals leave behind, and they can ID what animal was there,” said ...

Furthermore, hydration also affects the consistency and color of the poop. Does Frog Poop Have a Smell? Like any other animal’s dung, frog poop also has a smell. It has a faint dog-poop odor with the ...

A pair walking along the coast of a less-populated island in Hong Kong noticed some animal droppings — and rediscovered a mammal considered locally extinct for decades. Jian-Huan Yang and Yik ...

Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto A pair walking along the coast of a less-populated island in Hong Kong noticed some animal droppings — and rediscovered a mammal considered locally extinct ...