For tens of millions of years, dinosaurs dominated the planet – by not being finicky eaters. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature sheds some new light on how that came to be, and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The most surprising aspect was discovering how well-preserved and diverse the food remains inside the fossilised droppings and ...

Scientists have analyzed fossilized samples of dinosaur feces to learn more about the ecological influence of dinosaurs about 200 million years ago. In this work, hundreds of samples were tested with ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University has analyzed fossilized dinosaur droppings—known as coprolites—to ...

At this fossil park in Mississippi, visitors will be able to dig for fossils from 84 million-year-old animals that once lived in the state.

Fossilized droppings from the Triassic and Jurassic are revealing the diets of some dinosaurs—including a surprising taste for charcoal. Reading time 3 minutes Over the last quarter century, a team of ...

It may be one of the most unusual exhibits you'll ever come across; a collection of fossilized dinosaur fecal matter. To make more interesting, it's on loan from Florida's Poozeum and currently on ...

Two words say it all: “fossilized feces.” And tourists usually like anything free. “We aim to provide a one-of-a-kind experience that promises laughter, fascination, and a pile of the unexpected,” ...

When paleontologist Martin Qvarnström began peering inside 230-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur dung using an advanced X-ray technology, he wasn’t sure he’d see anything of interest. But embedded ...