Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An elephant pictured at Chester Zoo in England. - Chester Zoo Professor Suzannah Williams wishes she didn’t have to spend her days ...

For Valentine’s Day, the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore leaned into humor with a fundraiser called “Dollars for Dung.” For a small donation, starting at about $5, anyone could symbolically name a pile of ...

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 ...

An unorthodox project using animal feces, colloquially named "the poo zoo," could save endangered species and possibly help pull some back from the brink of extinction. The Guardian reported that ...

Cellulose, the major constituent of plant mass, is made up of long chains of sugar-like molecules, much in the same way that plastics are polymers made up of short repeating units. Cutting up these ...

Professor Suzannah Williams wishes she didn’t have to spend her days analyzing poop samples. It’s a dirty job; but someone’s got to do it. Biodiversity is rapidly dwindling, with wildlife populations ...