Our new research suggests the evolution of fecal matter helped fuel one of the most important events in the history of life on Earth: the Cambrian explosion

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…

An Explosion of Feces May Have Triggered Earth’s Explosion of Species: The nutrients found in animal excrement should never be discounted