A lot of things will lie to you in your life, but not poop. Close examination of animal scat will help you identify not only the species but how recently the animal was there, its sex, what it ate, ...

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell is quite often full of crap, metaphorically speaking. But now she has a really stinky situation on her hands – discovering the identity of the anonymous ...

A lightbulb moment hit as Lawrence David was chatting one day with an ecologist who studies the microbiomes and diets of large herbivores in the African savanna. David was envious. He'd been studying ...

It’s not exactly glamorous, but animal poop might be one of nature’s most underrated power tools. From regenerating soil to fuelling ecosystems, dung isn’t just something to step around—it’s a key ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

For over a century, Kopi luwak has been both admired and questioned. It’s made from coffee cherries eaten by the Asian palm civet, a small nocturnal mammal found across South and Southeast Asia. The ...

World's most expensive coffee has a controversial history. — -- The most expensive coffee in the world is harvested from a place where the sun don’t shine. It’s an exotic delicacy called Kopi ...

What’s the deal with scat? When animals well, you know, poop, they release organic matter which can contain diseases, phosphorus, and even fragments of DNA. Scientifically, animal poop is referred to ...

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 ...

Taking a closer look at scat on the ground can be a great way of determining what type of wildlife is present in an area. Below, find a guide to identifying the animal droppings commonly encountered ...

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 ...