Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

A Canadian inventor in Thailand is betting a small fortune that his brew made from elephant dung, the world's most expensive cup of joe, is the next big thing in the world of coffee.

A gut reaction inside the elephant creates what the founder of Black Ivory Coffee calls the coffee's unique taste. "When an elephant eats coffee, its stomach acid breaks down the protein found in ...

The elephant dung coffee is made from beans eaten and digested by elephants living on a reserve in Thailand. When animals pass the beans in their excrement, they are harvested, cleaned up and ...

“When an elephant eats coffee, its stomach acid breaks down the protein found in coffee, which is a key factor in bitterness,” said Blake Dinkin, who has spent $300,000 developing the coffee.

"When an elephant eats coffee, its stomach acid breaks down the protein found in coffee, which is a key factor in bitterness," said Blake Dinkin, who has spent $300,000 developing the coffee.

Black Ivory Coffee is made from pure Arabica beans hand-picked by hill-tribe women from a small mountain estate, then eaten by Thai elephants and plucked a day later from their dung, then ...

Share this article! AP: A herd of 20 elephants in Thailand eats coffee beans and then the beans are collected from their dung to make an exotic brew. Stomach turning or oddly alluring, this is not ...

It was a familiar aroma that accompanied me through the entire beer." The creation follows on from elephant dung coffee, which sold for $1,100 per kilogram.

In this Dec. 4, 2012 photo, a Thai mahout's wife jokingly poses with a plastic basket containing coffee beans freshly cleaned from elephant dung below the tail of an elephant in Chiang Rai ...