An elephant may be hundreds of times larger than a cat, but when it comes to pooping, it doesn’t take the elephant hundreds of times longer to heed nature’s call. In fact, both animals will probably ...

When a beetle gets swallowed up whole by a predatory frog, it's not necessarily the end of the insect's time on Earth. New research delves into how some aquatic beetles can survive being devoured by, ...

No matter what kind of animal you are, chances are you’re going to have to poop at one point or another. After the body takes in food and it passes through the digestive system, the leftovers your ...

It’s not considered polite to talk about it, but we all do it. Some of us are in and out so quickly that nobody would even ...

From the tiniest to the most massive of poos, physics predicts we should all spend the same amount of time on the john. Zoonar GmbH / Alamy The ancient Chinese practiced copromancy, the diagnosis of ...

PHOENIX — Something is stinking up Tempe — and no, it’s not from the draining of Tempe Town Lake. Tempe City Council member Kolby Granville is concerned with animal defecation in public areas around ...

Everyone poops, and it takes them about the same amount of time. A new study of the hydrodynamics of defecation finds that all mammals with faeces like ours take 12 seconds on average to relieve ...