Scientists analyzed the DNA in an ancient European salt miner's poop from some 2,600 years ago. They found the feces contained microbes consistent with the production of beer and blue cheese. Salt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We see a stone block with a hole in the middle. It is surrounded by other stone blocks. By analyzing poop from biblical-era ...

The whipworm (Trichuris trichiura) was once found all over the world, and it has infected people for thousands of years. It's also been identified in about 70 other species. The whipworm is now known ...

Beware any rock that’s oblong and cylindrical, like a stubby stone finger. It might not be a rock. It could, very likely, be a coprolite. Yes, that’s another name for fossilized feces. And if you do ...

Around 2,700 years ago, a group of local peoples worked inside salt mines in what is now the Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut region of Austria. As they toiled away ...

Using fossilized eggs in up to 2,500-year-old feces from Viking settlements in Denmark and other countries, researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences ...

Once upon a time, in a cave just north of Durango, Mexico, someone took a poop. In fact, it was quite a few someones, and these events were spread out over quite a bit of time—from about 725 A.D. to ...

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