HAMPTON, Va., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- A scientist says reports of so-called whale poop along Chesapeake Bay in Virginia were actually potato sponges washing ashore.
The ocean's delicate acid balance may be getting help from an unexpected source, fish poop.
Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their poop from space.
The Brits are murdering pigeons. Unable to prevent the pests from pooping on the stuffy spectators and sweater-vested tennis players at the All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (aka Wimbledon), ...
Livestock manure, left to decompose naturally, emits two particularly potent greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) – nitrous oxide and methane. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ...
PETAH TIKVA, Israel (Reuters) - An Israeli city is using DNA analysis of dog droppings to reward and punish pet owners.
Chicken poop to power thousands of homes; urban bears live fast and die young; and more.
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Archaeology magazine's top 10 discoveries of 2008 include Maya paint and ancient poop. And there's a bonus find as well: a 6,000-year-old time capsule.
Using a trained dog to sniff for poop and petri dishes attached to long poles, scientists are analyzing killer whales' scat and breath samples in the hopes of solving the mystery of Puget Sound's ...
Fossilized poop sheds light on diets of extinct giant birds.
Roughly 200,000-year-old hyena dung found in a South African cave has yielded hairs with a distinctly human-like pattern, researchers say.
Hairs that likely belonged to humans living 195,000 to 257,000 years ago in Africa have been identified in fossilized brown hyena dung, according to a new study that describes the first non-bony ...
... warmer than the ocean water.)
The fine details of modeling the flow of dissolved fish poop from a submerged cage are not as simple as they may seem. The design of the cage itself can affect the ...
The arrival of molecular genetic analysis of both genes and hormones is providing scientists unexpected and unprecedented information about animals -- provided the researchers can find ways to get ...
... manure, Danny Kluthe smells money. Long before President Barack Obama promised the country that "we will harness the sun and the winds and the soil," Kluthe already had yoked the power of pig poop.
