Poop

Bacteria extracted from poop are the main ingredient of a new pill that may help treat patients with a difficult-to-cure intestinal infection, according to a new study.

Termite poop apparently carries natural antibiotics and may help explain why human attempts to kill them using biological warfare have failed over the past 50 years, scientists say.

Poop transplants have come to a near standstill amid new rules from the Food and Drug Administration.

"Poop transplants," which involve transferring fecal matter from a healthy person into the colon of a infection patient, are an effective way to treat people infected with drug-resistant bacteria.

Using chemicals from human waste, researchers tracked the history of an Arctic settlement and its effects on the environment

While the concept of eating food derived from poop may not exactly be appetizing, in theory, it's safe, experts say.

Two artists plan to extract DNA from William S. Burroughs’ preserved feces and inject it into other cells. Is this even legal?

Caged scuba divers get close look at yellow excrement.

Bats are locavores and seasonal eaters, study finds.

It's not surprising that a guy's apartment is dirtier than a bachelorette's. What is disturbing, though, is just what makes it dirtier.

Whales fertilize the ocean with their feces, which contain nutrients they carry from deep waters up to the surface.

Satellite images of emperor penguin guano help map out breeding colonies.

Fossilized poop sheds light on diets of extinct giant birds.

Cause of Alzheimer's-like disease in cheetahs could be result of eating feces.

Scientists have figured out why a small owl lines its underground nests with the poop of other animals.

Now the question: Is it because they're used to it or has evolution made it so?