(Mypurgatoryyears/iStock/Getty Images) Food allergies aren't just inconvenient, they can be really scary – imagine being out ...

Let me tell you about my incredible day at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary in Jupiter Farms! "We're a wildlife hospital, so we take ...

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 ...

Austin City Code requires owners and handlers to promptly clean up dog and cat waste on property they don't own.

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 to categorize known examples of fossilized poop, or coprolites, from both ...

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 ...

They have dark caps and grow along the forest floor, but these are no harmless fungi—they’re parasitic plants that get their nutrients from the roots of nearby plants. Each yeasty-smelling B. fungosa ...

By the time deputies got into the property Monday, they found “feces over every square inch in the house,” Budensiek added.

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 ...