Ornithologists from the University of Tokyo have observed excretions of streaked shearwaters (Calonectris leucomelas) in the open ocean using belly-mounted...
Blue whales and other baleen whales, which filter seawater through their mouths to feed on small marine life, once teemed in Earth’s oceans. In the 20th...
Paleontologists have found ancient DNA and spores of truffle-like fungi, including at least one colorful species, inside two coprolites of the upland moa...
Paleontologists from Sweden and Poland have examined hundreds of fossilized samples of feces and vomit from the Polish Basin in central Europe to reconstruct...
Paleontologists have found several species of parasites, including Ascaridida eggs, in a 200-million-year-old coprolite probably produced by a crocodile-like...
At least two individuals of the Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) live in Sagarmatha National Park, Mount Everest region, eastern Nepal, according to a...
Nepenthes are some of the most recognizable carnivorous plants on the planet, capturing and digesting organic material in their modified leaves to acquire...
The bare-nosed wombat (Vombatus ursinus) is an herbivorous Australian marsupial, renowned for its cubic feces. However, the ability of the wombat’s intestine...
In a paper published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, an international team of researchers described an extraordinary collective defense used by eastern...
