When it comes to the success of ancient civilizations, the first things that come to mind are typically their military ...

Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250 ...

This week in science: a major cancer analysis links most new cases to just two lifestyle habits; how poop transplants from ...

It is every pet owner’s worst nightmare: their beloved furry friend going missing. In 2025, a dog named Ziggy made a break ...

Ancient Greco-Roman texts discuss the use of excrement in medicine, but this is the first direct evidence we've found that ...

Archaeological analysis of items from a pre-Inca Peruvian kingdom reveals their prosperity was built on bird poop.

When some ancient Romans were feeling a little under the weather, they were treated with human feces. While this practice was ...

Supplementing the guts of older mice with poop from younger ones has revealed the key role microbes play in intestinal stem ...

Before the Inca civilization rose to power in what’s now Peru, the Chincha Kingdom reigned as a prosperous society on the country’s southern coast. Now, scientists have discovered that seabird ...

Guano dramatically boosted the production of maize, and the surplus helped fuel the Chincha Kingdom’s economy.

Archaeologists in Turkey say they have uncovered evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments, according to new research.

Melting mega-piles of grimy road snow can release weeks worth of salt, oils (and dog poop) in what one scientist called a ...