Three-quarters of your poop consists of water and most of the rest is food your body didn’t digest. Once it exits the digestive system, poop is usually a shade of brown, regardless of the appearance ...

Although the first stool of your baby, called meconium, might be strange to see, it tells you a lot about how your baby is ...

Many people wonder if there is a right time to poop. Did you know? Your poop timings tend to reveal a lot about your gut health. It helps to understand the gut rhythm, diet, and lifestyle of the ...

Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic turnover. In biological terms, however, waste handling takes multiple forms, shaped ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why is my poop brown? – Ethan J., age 9, Potomac ...