In the wee hours of the morning in a lab in Amherst, Massachusetts, geoscience graduate student Rob D’Anjou sat looking over test results, a pot of coffee nearby. He’d been pulling long days to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human or animal poop of brown color lying on yellow background. Everybody poops, but only some of that poop fossilizes, turning ...

A team of scientists in Switzerland is collecting and deep-freezing human poop in what they call a "doomsday" vault. The goal is to protect the invisible microbial world inside us for future ...

History remembers warriors for their conquests and kings for their reigns. But this one Viking left behind something more tangible and far more unique—an epic dump. We’re not just talking about any ...

Poop is an unlikely biographer of human life, but it can hold rich and varied stories. Fossilized feces, known as coprolites, have revealed the diets of ancient humans, what their gut bacteria ...

However, 21 percent of the dog’s meals consisted of human poop, making it the second most popular item on the menu. (An analysis of 400 scat samples revealed the same result.) I was also able to ...