A naked mole rat queen relies on her colony to help raise her pups, and she may manipulate their parenting instincts through hormones hidden in her faeces – exploiting the fact that colony members ...

Dog faeces can still be troublesome thousands of years after being dumped. Archaeologists can end up in deep doodoo if they mistake it for human faeces. But now an artificial intelligence system has ...

A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of the eggs of parasitic worms, suggesting the inhabitants feasted on the internal ...

A 1,900-year-old Roman vial with human faeces was found in western Turkey The vial contained faeces mixed with thyme, matching ancient medicinal recipes Gas chromatography confirmed the residue as ...

If you’ve ever thought your poo is just a bunch of dead cells, think again. Most of it is alive, teeming with billions of microbes. Here’s what studies in healthy adults reveal makes up our poo. Our ...

What do crispy bacon, a juicy beef steak, human flesh and faeces have in common? They all trigger the same powerful reaction in vegetarians – disgust. According to new research, for vegetarians, meat ...

The public have been urged to stop putting faeces out in their household waste after a worker was “spattered by faeces” while collecting trash on Serpentine Road. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the ...