Known as the Cambrian Explosion, this flurry of rapid evolution produced most of the animal phyla and ecosystems we see around us today. And it may have taken off because some of those early animals ...

Around 540 million years ago, the biological landscape of Earth went through a huge transformation called the Cambrian ...

At least 20 mistreated and matted Border Collies were rescued from a Florida hellhole house that was filled with “feces over ...

Life as we know it wouldn’t be what is today without a lot of poop. In fact, Earth may have never hosted any life at all ...

That’s the premise of a paper published earlier this month in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. The research began as an effort to categorize known examples of fossilized poop, or coprolites, from both ...

What begins as a routine day cleaning animal enclosures quickly turns into a series of unexpected discoveries. From hidden ...

Called the Cambrian explosion, scientists have no idea why it happened. “We see the first evidence of basically every major animal group all pop into existence,” says Karma Nanglu, a paleontologist ...

Our new research suggests the evolution of fecal matter helped fuel one of the most important events in the history of life on Earth: the Cambrian explosion ...

Is it the theory of evo-poo-tion? While poop may seem like a revolting subject, it could could also be responsible for life ...

Let me tell you about my incredible day at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary in Jupiter Farms! "We're a wildlife hospital, so we take ...

They have dark caps and grow along the forest floor, but these are no harmless fungi—they’re parasitic plants that get their nutrients from the roots of nearby plants. Each yeasty-smelling B. fungosa ...