For humans, feces are last on the list of things we’d place near our mouth. In the animal world, that reaction does not ...

A lot of things will lie to you in your life, but not poop. Close examination of animal scat will help you identify not only the species but how recently the animal was there, its sex, what it ate, ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

Shweta Taneja's new book explores how digestive waste tells stories of how animals live, think, feel, migrate, communicate and evolve ...