A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature sheds some new light on how that came to be, and the research behind it has a whole lot to do with one thing: fossilized dinosaur poop.

You are what you eat — a case especially true for the prehistoric creatures that roamed Earth before us. According to a recent study published in Nature, which analyzed fossilized dinosaur poop, or ...

To better understand the extinct giants, Qvarnström and his colleagues investigated overlooked fossils known as bromalites: remnants from the digestive system — aka dinosaur poop and vomit.

Over the last quarter century, a team of paleontologists has collected and studied coprolites—fossilized poop—and dinosaur vomit, millions of years old, from what is now Poland. The team has ...

Here’s how it works. Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how the dinosaurs rose to power — by studying dino puke and poop. The findings, published Nov. 27 in the journal ...

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 ...