Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic turnover. In biological terms, however, waste handling takes multiple forms, shaped ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

Biologists and ecologists have long wished to gather high-quality data on exactly what the animals they study are eating, but how can such observations be made without disturbing the natural patterns ...

Sometimes, dogs do strange things. Beyond rolling in mud puddles or biting themselves, your pet might drink from toilets or lick its butt. In other cases, it may eat its own poop or, worse, the poop ...

Chinese researchers have mapped an enormous collection of unknown microbes hidden inside the animals that roam the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, revealing biological functions that could power the next ...