Some magical moments in science involve the smell of dung. Case in point: The discovery of the “unintentional rewilding” of bighorn sheep on Tiburón Island by a researcher who was simply ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut and Durham University found evidence in ancient dung samples that indicate farming began up to 12,500 years ago at the Abu Hureyra site in Syria.

At 5,500 years old, the "astonishingly modern" shoe was exceptionally preserved by sheep dung and dryness. The world's oldest known leather shoe (pictured) has been found in an Armenian cave ...

Even if kept for a few days, she says, sheep wouldn’t produce large amounts of dung. “The whole thing is a classic whodunit,” says anthropologist Melinda Zeder, something perhaps DNA ...

Basically, the team dated and sifted through soil samples for dung spherulites — the tiny, crystalized clumps of calcium carbonate common in the waste of animals such as sheep and cows. And they ...

Sending barrels on boats, foraging salty peat, and smoking the grain with sheep dung are just some of the lengths Tassie distillers will go to to make themselves stand out.

While New Zealand’s 25 million sheep famously far outnumber its human population of around five million, the Tahuna club is not the only golf course in the world with ovine groundskeepers.

The club had to pay $19,000 this year to replace its flock of 125 ewes. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.