Yellow poop or yellow diarrhea can have many causes, and though it's often harmless, it can indicate a more serious health ...

A four year-long research study has found that particles secreted by an intestinal worm may assist in treating inflammatory ...

Cephalopods that eat more bivalves, such as scallops, are more likely to have white poop, whereas octopuses that feast on red crabs tend to excrete red feces.

A pair of ancient nematodes or microscopic roundworms that lived in the Pleistocene era, when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth, have been revived by scientists. The surprising discovery ...

Because they live in the gut, you can sometimes tell you have intestinal worms by looking at your stool. These parasitic worms are called helminths. Seeing worms or eggs in your poop isn’t the only ...

After an hour at the Arizona Worm Farm on Sunday afternoon, a couple of dozen Jewish kids knew a few facts about worms, or at ...

Here, we investigate the link between gut microbiota variation and stool consistency using Bristol Stool Scale classification, which reflects faecal water content and activity, and is considered a ...

Yellow toenails should never be ignored. They're most often caused by a fungal infection that's contagious and hard to eliminate without proper treatment. You can also develop yellow toenails as a ...

Experimental study design. The figure summarizes steps taken and the number of samples processed at each step. Two types of stool material were used for three sets of DNA extraction, differing in the ...

or bad tasting food Swallows a non-food substance Ate food or drink that is spoiled or has set out at room temp Ate raw meat or eggs Ate human or animal feces (poop) Ate dirt, sand, or dirty water Ate ...