A lot of hippos ultimately means a very dirty river, but that fact can have some surprisingly major consequences on the ...

When you're a fossil hunter, an ancient piece of poo is a good find; but not all poo is created equal, and this coprolite in ...

A fossilized piece of dinosaur poop could help answer an age-old question in paleontology: Why are birds the only dinosaurs that survived?

Australian athlete Joanna Wietrzyk has apologised following the global controversy surrounding her bowel incontinence issue during an event in Beijing last weekend. The Melbourne-based athlete said ...

If you ask the internet, Wietrzyk took “winning by any means” a lil’ too far last weekend. Mid-race in Beijing, the 22-year-old appeared to experience sudden fecal incontinence, meaning she couldn’t ...

It’s the only example of a dinosaur-era feather found within rock that wasn’t completely flattened through the centuries. By K. R. Callaway An extremely well-preserved bird feather from the age of ...

Discovered in Montana in 2016, the cherry-size coprolite contains feathers, bones and evidence of the bird's last meal before the creature was eaten by a theropod ...

Have you seen this cat? Of course you have, it looks like every other tabby cat. Virginia Fallon is a staff writer and columnist based in Wellington and was named Best Columnist at the 2026 New ...

In July, while visiting Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Rambukkana in Sri Lanka, I was invited to the picturesque Pinnawala Elephant Dung Paper Products workshop nearby. There, on the concrete floor ...

Qin Rao, MD, is a board-certified physician based in New York City. He currently works as a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Manhattan Gastroenterology. Gastrointestinal infections like ...