A mission to remove potential explosives from a remote area of Carlsbad Caverns National Park revealed the cave system’s legacy of guano mining. The National Park Service reported it removed six boxes ...

For many years now, scientists have learned about the past by analyzing core samples taken from ice caps or soil. They have now applied that same technique to a millennia-old pile of bat poop, with ...

A Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis), one of the species that contributed to the guano researchers used to study the climates of the past. Alex Borisenko / Biodiversity Institute of Ontario via ...

Bat guano — a.k.a., droppings — preserves evidence of past fires, a recent analysis suggests, providing an “unconventional” record that could help scientists learn more about fire history. The study, ...

Wildlife like chimpanzees have started consuming bat excrement — guano — in the Budongo Forest, Uganda. After analyzing samples, scientists found that the guano not only held high concentrations of ...