WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Don't laugh, but the discovery of the oldest known human poop is offering valuable scientific insight into the life of Neanderthals who lived in Spain some 50,000 years ago.

Everybody poops, but only some of that poop fossilizes, turning into coprolites. While ancient droppings may sound gross — after all, who wants to go digging through feces that are centuries or even ...

Poop is an unlikely biographer of human life, but it can hold rich and varied stories. Fossilized feces, known as coprolites, have revealed the diets of ancient humans, what their gut bacteria ...

Swiss researchers are reportedly creating a "doomsday vault" of human feces. Their goal? To freeze and preserve 10,000 stool samples by 2029 in an effort to safeguard humanity's microbial heritage.

Those looking to climb Mount Everest will now have to carry poop bags on them to bring their waste back down to camp. The tallest mountain in the world is estimated to have around 3 tons of poop ...

U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants.