An international study led by Flinders University has found a fertile area of inspiration to explain an important step in ...

(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 ...

Michigan health officials reported what appear to be the first deaths in connection with the ongoing cyclospora outbreak on ...

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South Carolina health officials report 37 cyclosporiasis cases in July, up from earlier months, while saying the cases do not ...

The outbreak was first identified in late June after more than 170 cases were reported across several southeast Michigan ...

But now, a review study published today in Trends in Ecology & Evolution hypothesizes that the ecosystem overhaul was also fueled by an explosion of poop.  In a modern ocean, animal excrement is a key ...

As all children learn, everyone poos. But when did this begin? And what evolutionary and environmental changes accompanied ...

Then along came a revolutionary invention, the through-gut, giving digested food a back exit and changing the face of our ...

Ancient fossilized feces reveal how animal waste helped transform early oceans, feed marine ecosystems, and lock carbon into the deep sea.