Ancient tapeworm eggs found in 270-million-year-old shark poop suggest these parasites may have plagued animals for much longer than previously known, researchers say. Tapeworms cling to the inner ...

Check out this beautiful, red and black, 270 million-year-old fossil. It's a shark turd. No, seriously, it's fossilized shark poop. I wonder how you go about finding fossilized shark fecal matter ...

Fossilized shark poop, called a coprolite (shown here), was found to contain ancient tapeworm eggs.

As it turns out, poop can tell you a lot about a shark’s diet. Traditional methods to determine the diet of a shark aren’t very pleasant. With a living shark, its stomach can be partially pulled out ...

But as soon as Stitzer sent pictures of the specimen, Frandsen knew that it was, in fact, crocodile poop with bite marks and a tooth that the shark lost in the attempt to eat it.

Shark poop is also extremely valuable to scientists. It contains important information about the shark’s diet, its overall health, stress levels, and even its migration patterns.

Reaching 40 feet long and weighing up to 15 tons, whale sharks are the world’s largest fish. They feed by filtering plankton and fish eggs from a vortex created by their opening mouths — and ...

A fossil found last October near Charleston reportedly shows an ancient shark tooth broken off inside a piece of fossilized crocodile poop.

Tapeworm eggs found in ancient shark poop suggests these parasites may have plagued animals for much longer than previously thought, scientists find.