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.

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a nutrient-rich environment for life to thrive despite glacier loss. Climate change is ...

Feces don’t get enough credit as food. The stinky stuff is not just an end product after food gets eaten, digested and finally discarded by animal guts. Poop can also be something nutritious, useful ...

While poop is decidedly not on the menu for us humans, it’s a normal food for many animals. In one study in Tanzania, scientists remarked that hooded vultures showed more interest in protein-rich lion ...

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 ...

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 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 ...