The chamber pot stands about 12.5 inches tall and measures 13.5 inches wide at the rim. R.J.A. Wilson It may look like an ordinary storage jar, but some 1,500 years ago, a ceramic orange vessel ...
Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. It can ...
This news release is available in German. As part of an international project, researchers at the Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science center (IPAS) at the University of Basel examined ...
Piers Mitchell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Most people don't get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces. But Marissa Ledger isn't like most people. "A lot of my research is focused on actually studying ...
Beware any rock that’s oblong and cylindrical, like a stubby stone finger. It might not be a rock. It could, very likely, be a coprolite. Yes, that’s another name for fossilized feces. And if you do ...
The brown-headed cowbird is nothing short of a nightmare for its hosts: If they eject the brood parasite's eggs from the nest, it punishes them by destroying their entire clutch. Researchers have ...
The eggs of the Iron Age parasites originate from preserved human and animal excrement (coprolites) and show that some individuals were host to several parasites at the same time. Furthermore, the ...