Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

Defecation duration is surprisingly similar throughout the mammal world. Elephant image via www.shutterstock.com. The ancient Chinese practiced copromancy, the diagnosis of health based on the shape, ...

This morning I got up at 6 a.m. to get over to the Dallas Zoo to watch the zoo’s Vice President Sean Green shovel elephant poop. As a bonus, I caught Lydia Jennings, the zoo’s communications and media ...

Vijendra Shekhawat was awestruck when he saw elephants for the first time. As an 18-year-old, on a visit to the historic Amber Fort in Jaipur, northern India, he was “amazed by the gigantic creatures” ...