We may owe our very existence to an ancient poop explosion. If the earliest animals hadn't been such prolific poopers, life might not have diversified into all the weird and wonderful forms we see ...

The creation of life is a beautiful, sacred act; a great power no one should wield irresponsibly. That said, according to new research published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, complex life on Earth ...

The Cambrian explosion may have been fueled by poop. The first animals on Earth emerged about 600 million years ago, and 60 million years later, those simple early animals evolved in wildly different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Kimmig & Bicknell, Trends Ecol. Evol., 2026) We may owe our very existence to an ancient poop explosion. If the earliest animals ...