For humans, feces are last on the list of things we’d place near our mouth. In the animal world, that reaction does not always apply. Coprophagy is the act of eating feces, and for many species it ...

Of all the mammals in the world, humans by far have the strangest diets. As omnivores, we have the most variety of any other ...

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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 ...

HOLED up in a small basement with no natural light, fresh air, or deep water to dive in, the tragic enclosure of a gentoo penguin in London’s Sea Life aquarium is a far cry from their homeland ...

In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including ...

“Poop is central to the story of how dogs came into our lives," write Duke University dog researchers Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods in their wonderful new book, Survival of the Friendliest: ...

Animals have evolved to eat a lot of different things, even stuff that barely passes for food, and it shapes our entire lives from what we look like to where we live. Today, we’ll talk about why being ...

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