While poop is decidedly not on the menu for us humans, it’s a normal food for many animals. In one study in Tanzania, scientists remarked that hooded vultures showed more interest in protein-rich lion ...

Animals that resemble plants are not uncommon in the wild. Many creatures use this mimicry for camouflage purposes. One sea slug, however, doesn’t just look like a plant, it actually functions like ...

Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic turnover. In biological terms, however, waste handling takes multiple forms, shaped ...