Asian honeybees collect animal faeces and dot the entrance of their hives with it as a defence against group attacks by giant hornets. Heather Mattila at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and her ...

Curtin researchers have analysed organic molecules preserved within 306-million-year-old fossilised animal faeces (coprolite) and unlocked a wealth of information about the diets of long-extinct ...

Katherine Whitehouse-Tedd has previously received funding from the Sea World and Busch Gardens Conservation Fund and the WALTHAM Foundation. She is affiliated with Cheetah Outreach Trust (a ...

A balloon sent by North Korea, carrying various objects including what appeared to be rubbish and excrement, is seen over a rice field in South Korea - Reuters North Korea sent 150 balloons carrying ...

A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of the eggs of parasitic worms, suggesting the inhabitants feasted on the internal ...

Zoological research reveals fascinating animals that do not produce faeces. These creatures, including tree hole frogs, ...

ECOSYSTEMS ARE complex things, and monitoring their health is hard. To track every species would be impossible, so ecologists commonly focus on those that, like canaries in coal mines, are thought to ...

SO-CALLED ORGANIC crops, grown without recourse to synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, are credited with miraculous properties by many of their fans. Unfortunately, there is little scientific ...