Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

Archaeologists don’t always find bones or artifacts. Sometimes, they found something unglamorous that offers a unique type of ...

Professor Suzannah Williams wishes she didn’t have to spend her days analyzing poop samples. It’s a dirty job; but someone’s got to do it. Biodiversity is rapidly dwindling, with wildlife populations ...

An international team of scientists who spent five years studying the poo of 647 Danish babies found something astonishing. The nappy samples contained 10,000 species of virus—10 times the number of ...

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...