Experts from Greenpeace Switzerland were startled when they analyzed feces from a variety of wild animals. "Oh s***, microplastics," the researchers titled their findings. While comical, the droppings ...

Scientists from the Smithsonian have successfully used swift fox droppings to identify individual animals and collect other data vital to monitoring a reintroduced population in Montana. Ellie ...

Your neighborhood is home to all sorts of amazing animals, from raccoons, squirrels and skunks to birds, bugs and snails. Even if you don’t see them, most of these creatures are leaving evidence of ...

In this nature-loving life I’ve chosen, scatological subjects arise as a matter of course. Take this recent voicemail: “I was walking in the woods by my house,” reported a friend, “when I came upon a ...