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 ...

Around 540 million years ago, the biological landscape of Earth went through a huge transformation called the Cambrian ...

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

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 ...

At least 20 mistreated and matted Border Collies were rescued from a Florida hellhole house that was filled with “feces over ...

What begins as a routine day cleaning animal enclosures quickly turns into a series of unexpected discoveries. From hidden ...

Our new research suggests the evolution of fecal matter helped fuel one of the most important events in the history of life on Earth: the Cambrian explosion ...

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 ...

(Kimmig & Bicknell, Trends Ecol. Evol., 2026) We may owe our very existence to an ancient poop explosion. If the earliest animals hadn't been such prolific poopers, life might not have diversified ...

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

Is it the theory of evo-poo-tion? While poop may seem like a revolting subject, it could could also be responsible for life ...

When you're looking for ways to stop birds from pooping on your car, the best approach is usually to reduce the things ...