Let’s say you wanted to solve a 20,000-year-old mystery, where would you start? Perhaps archaeology and geology come to mind. Or, you could sift through a 3-metre pile of bat faeces.

Bats flying out of an Indonesian cave for their nightly meal
[Credit: Chris Wurster]Researchers from James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, chose the bat poo in their quest to answer to a long-standing question: why is there some much biodiversity…

[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Source: archeo