Fossilized feces may have helped fuel the Cambrian Explosion by moving nutrients and organic matter through ancient oceans as ...

Six million years later, shortly before the Cambrian Explosion, the sensory landscape was transformed. While animals with limited senses still existed, others were making more direct paths towards ...

But now, a review study published today in Trends in Ecology & Evolution hypothesizes that the ecosystem overhaul was also fueled by an explosion of poop.  In a modern ocean, animal excrement is a key ...

As all children learn, everyone poos. But when did this begin? And what evolutionary and environmental changes accompanied the dawn of dung? Going further, is the evolution of excrement the reason we ...