cloaca

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They transform some of those same nitrogen-based compounds into solids known as "urates," which are expelled through a shared opening called the cloaca.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025

As the researchers report today in Science, mom released a white substance from her cloaca, which her young immediately gobbled up.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 6, 2024

It can “breathe” through its cloaca if it needs to.

From NewsForKids.net • Feb. 6, 2024

Instead they have a single orifice called a cloaca that is used for defecation as well as reproduction in both males and females.

From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2023

Just anterior to these openings the cloaca opens ventrally into a small, anteriorly-projecting pouch, the rudiment of the allantois.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.