The telltale sign? Bird poop. That’s what researchers at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences theorize after studying the movements of krill trawled from Antarctica’s Bransfield Strait.

Historically, nightingale bird droppings were used to remove stains from delicate silk garments in Japan, as well as by geishas to whiten and even skin marred by frequent and heavy use of makeup ...

Instead, their livers convert nitrogen into uric acid. This is excreted as a white, paste-like substance. But if you’ve ever looked closely at fresh bird droppings you may have spotted that it isn’t ...

The substance was found to be bird poop and not the drug. He was pulled over for a routine traffic stop, but the incident made big headlines when the deputy pulling him over mistook one unique ...