At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...

Archaeologists analyzing a vial from Turkey have found the first physical evidence that ancient civilization used human feces ...

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

Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a ...

Physicians of the Roman empire had a knack for making remedies from an assortment of components from various animals, ...

A team of scientists in Switzerland is collecting and deep-freezing human poop in what they call a "doomsday" vault. The goal is to protect the invisible microbial world inside us for future ...

In the wee hours of the morning in a lab in Amherst, Massachusetts, geoscience graduate student Rob D’Anjou sat looking over test results, a pot of coffee nearby. He’d been pulling long days to ...

“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: ...