Stool transplants are cutting-edge experimental procedures, but using poop as medicine is hardly a modern idea. Ancient Romans knew their… feces – or at least they liked to think they did. According ...

Ancient Greco-Roman texts discuss the use of excrement in medicine, but this is the first direct evidence we've found that ...

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Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250 ...

When some ancient Romans were feeling a little under the weather, they were treated with human feces. While this practice was mentioned in ancient Greco-Roman medical texts by figures such as Pliny ...

Shweta Taneja's new book explores how digestive waste tells stories of how animals live, think, feel, migrate, communicate and evolve ...