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Podcast: National Poo Museum

A place where excrement is elevated.
The Podcast Team May 8, 2023
The carnivorous plant <em>Nepenthes lowii</em>, found only in Borneo, is able to thrive in a harsh, high-elevation ecosystem because it has adapted to eat animal droppings.
carnivorous plants

These Toilet-Shaped Carnivorous Plants Thrive By Eating Poop

Some of Borneo's pitcher plants took insects off the menu in favor of mammal droppings. It's an evolutionary triumph.
Gemma Tarlach January 20, 2023
An artist's rendering of the moment an ancient crocodilian really stepped in it.
science

An Ancient Croc Stepped in Poop and Created a Portal to the Past

Scientists braved rain, mud, and a close encounter at a crocodile farm to learn what fossilized feces reveal about life 33 million years ago.
Kate Golembiewski February 28, 2022
Spotted skunks perform an impressive handstand to appear twice their size and ward off would-be predators.
vampires

Our Favorite Headlines of the Year Offer Skunk Stunts and Sandwich Scandals

Wild wordplay and curious questions from 2021.
Michelle Cassidy December 27, 2021
An elegant toilet on display.
Gmunden, Austria

Klo & So Museum of Historic Sanitary Objects

These are probably the most beautifully-crafted toilets you've ever seen.
Standard toilets like this one are not usually profitable enterprises for the user, but a new project in South Korea is changing that.
sewers

Students Are Getting Paid to Poop at a South Korean University

The project transforms human waste into biogas, and allows participants to buy everything from bananas to socks.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 23, 2021
Richmond, Australia

Pooseum

A small museum dedicated to taking the taboo out of all things related to poo.
The cave is full of guano.
science

What Secrets Lurk Within a Human-Sized Dome of Bat Guano?

Deep in a Jamaican cave, scientists are getting to the bottom of that question.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 18, 2021
Iriomote is famously unsullied—with the exception of its problematic poop.
forests

Leave Only Footsteps and Take Your Poop When Visiting Japan's Lush Iriomote Island

"Tent toilets" are helping to remedy a stinky situation.
Alice Barnes-Brown March 2, 2021
This painting mingles cow dung and gold leaf.
paintings

The Artist Who Celebrates Bavaria's Rural Heritage With Elegant Cow-Dung Paintings

Werner Härtl says the unusual medium has "a life of its own."
Jackie Guigui-Stolberg February 24, 2021
After a thorough cleaning, this column capital showed off striking color.
temples

The Messy Business of Scrubbing 2,000 Years of Bird Poop From an Egyptian Temple

The crap covered up cartouches and constellations.
Isaac Schultz January 13, 2021
Courtesty of Uldis Kalejs
science

What Ancient Toilets Reveal About the History of the Human Gut

Scientists are learning loads from medieval latrines.
Luke Fater October 20, 2020
Anning scoured the shores and chronicled her adventures.
fossils

Sold: A Famous Fossil-Hunter’s Letter That’s Totally Full of Crap

Mary Anning's correspondence helped kick off the study of coprolites.
Jessica Leigh Hester August 6, 2020
You can't easily spot the poop in the soupy green water, but it's definitely down there.
animals

Pablo Escobar’s Hippo Herd Is Treating Colombia's Lakes Like One Big Toilet

They're thriving, pooping, and fouling up the water around the drug lord's former estate.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 12, 2020