It took special conditions to preserve the world’s human largest poop. The excrement was preserved in wet and peaty layers ...

It features the world's largest display of coprolites — fossilized poop. Why it matters: Coprolites can shed light on prehistoric animals' habitat, range and diet. Zoom in: Frandsen started ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the longest migration of any mammal,” says Roman. “So they connect areas close to ...