A tiny treasure buried in 236-million-year-old poop. It might not be as glamorous as a bug in amber, but this dung fossil, ...

Discover the truth about cat worms. Learn what do cat worms look like and how to identify them in your feline companion with ...

Defecating exposes sloths to predators on the jungle floor. An unexpected ally benefits, and returns the favor.

A healthy bowel movement schedule ranges from a few times a day to a few times a week. See a healthcare provider if your ...

Understand the risks associated with white worms in cat feces. Find out what is a white worm in cat poop and how to address ...

More than 90 percent of popular Southern California freshwater game fish sampled in a new study contained invasive worms capable of infecting humans, scientists are warning. The parasites — two ...

After surviving asthma as a child, the author explores whether parasitic worms—once a natural part of our gut biome—might ...

FECES: The gut microbiome flaunts its diversity in this sample of human feces, which includes an enormous bacterium that’s about 50 times longer than E. coli. Everyone’s mix of microbes is unique.

Microplastics have been found in human stool and urine. Jacques Robert, a professor of microbiology and immunology, and of environmental medicine, at the University of Rochester, said his own ...

The work captures, for the first time, a comprehensive snapshot of the Salmonella gene expression directly from a human stool sample. The transcriptomic data provides new insights into how the ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. One of the most vexing unsolved problems in human ...

These infestations can be very painful and can cause serious, potentially fatal damage to their hosts by causing myiasis, a parasitic infection of fly larvae in human tissue. "People who travel to ...