The Indian midden was, initially, a trash heap. As early as 5,000 B.C., Indians were living around the St. Johns River. When they discovered enough food to allow them to remain in one place, they b… ...

Rhinos Use Poop Piles Like a Social Network. ... Middens provide many benefits to a group of animals, says Madlen Ziege, a Ph.D. student at the University of Frankfurt in Germany.

It's a simple concept: a pile of discarded shells. They're not at all the beautiful sea shells that are collected along the shore not far away. The simple mound, also called a midden, is all that ...

Along with the old trash dump of tinker metalware, another highlight of the 1.5-mile Garvin Trail is a chunk of basalt known as “monument rock” located at the trail one takes to the midden pile.

Fossilised piles of faeces, called middens, have revealed that a desert valley in Yemen was once a tropical oasis, which may have lasted in the dry region because of human land management practices.

This pile, called a midden, is the work of a single red squirrel. Red squirrels are active year round and generally easy to spot — and even easier to hear as they scold passersby in their high, ...