Naturally, the line seemed providential — if you happen to be a columnist. Did he say dung heap? Of course, the difference between "dung heap of humanity" and "shithole," as President Trump ...

A dung heap is a frenzy of shoving and shovelling. “Never did adventurers hurrying from the four corners of the earth display such eagerness,” the French entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre once wrote.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — It was a classic case of going from the outhouse to the penthouse. Less than an hour before her semifinal at the U.S. track trials, 400-meter runner Kendall Ellis was trapped ...

The dung heap is being dismantled by a scrum of hermit crabs. When I crouch for a closer look, they freeze, waiting for me to make the next move. Yesterday, the dung was fresh—wet, dense and ...

It's not easy being a dung beetle. Besides the obvious fact that they eat, well, dung, the act of just getting a meal is an involved process. In the most elaborate carry-out scenario, the dung ...

One thing’s for sure: Escaping the dung heap doesn’t come cheap. By Dennis Overbye I spend a lot of time lately thinking about a fungus called Pilobolus. It lives on dung, mostly from cows and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska woman had the scare of a lifetime when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from below. “I got out there and sat down on the ...