Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cambrian Explosion fossilized feces may have moved nutrients through ancient oceans, helping complex marine ecosystems expand.

Professor Suzannah Williams wishes she didn’t have to spend her days analyzing poop samples. It’s a dirty job; but someone’s got to do it. Biodiversity is rapidly dwindling, with wildlife populations ...

A new study of African wildlife poop sheds light on what shapes the gut ecosystem. The study of elephants, giraffes, and other wildlife in Namibia’s Etosha National Park underscores the ways in which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossilized animal waste may have recycled nutrients and helped complex marine ecosystems flourish during the Cambrian Explosion.

As all children learn, everyone poos. But when did this begin? And what evolutionary and environmental changes accompanied the dawn of dung? Going further, is the evolution of excrement the reason we ...

Fossilized feces may have helped transform Earth’s early oceans, feeding a cycle of nutrients, larger animals and more complex ecosystems during one of evolution’s most dramatic bursts of ...

Ancient animal waste may have helped transform Earth’s oceans more than 500 million years ago. A new international study led by Flinders University argues that fossilized feces played a key role in ...