This must be a snorkeler’s worst nightmare! But all animals have to poop somehow and that is as true for whale sharks as for ...

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It sounds like one of those facts you’d immediately Google just to confirm it’s real. But yes, some animals really do eat ...

As adorable as dogs are, sometimes they are downright disgusting, especially when they snack on their own poop, but science ...

Feces are a valuable tool in the world of animal identification. It might sound gross, but it’s one of the best ways to determine an animal’s behavior. An animal’s poop, known as scat, tells you where ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

River otter poop is the perfect for Katrina Lohan's research as it contains DNA from worms, fish, and other organisms, including parasites. Image: National Zoo River otters are unequivocally cute. But ...

The wombat’s intestine does something no other gut on Earth does. Understanding why reveals how deeply evolution can sculpt even the most intimate biology.

For humans, feces are last on the list of things we’d place near our mouth. In the animal world, that reaction does not always apply. Coprophagy is the act of eating feces, and for many species it ...

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