A small clinical trial suggests that fecal microbiome transplantation (FMT), or “poop pills,” may increase peanut tolerance ...

That’s more or less the expert consensus: love the pet, wash your hands. Living closely with pets brings you closer to germs, ...

In a recent study, evolution gets even messier than usual. I tend to think the ability to poop was more important. An animal without an anus has to wait after eating while its food is digested then ...

Known as the Cambrian Explosion, this flurry of rapid evolution produced most of the animal phyla and ecosystems we see around us today. And it may have taken off because some of those early animals ...

That’s the premise of a paper published earlier this month in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. The research began as an effort ...

Called the Cambrian explosion, scientists have no idea why it happened. “We see the first evidence of basically every major animal group all pop into existence,” says Karma Nanglu, a paleontologist ...

The researchers call this process the ‘fecal revolution.’ Their analysis suggests that growing quantities of animal waste redistributed organic matter and nutrients, helping marine ecosystems become ...

Julien Kimmig’s career began with a surprising abundance of feces. As a PhD student working at a Cambrian site in northern ...

Think birds are targeting your car? These expert-backed fixes will solve your problem.

While poop may seem like a revolting subject, it could could also be responsible for life on earth thanks to a “fecal ...

Life as we know it wouldn't be what is today without a lot of poop. In fact, Earth may have never hosted any life at all without experiencing a "fecal revolution" about 540 million years ago. "Next to ...

My search for Asia's most dangerous foods led me from poisonous fish that have claimed lives to one of the region's most unusual soups. Along the way, I discovered the traditions, techniques, and ...