Scientists have charted how dinosaurs rose to prominence using a pretty unconventional method. They studied, in dirty detail, ...

Scientists have unlocked the mystery of why dinosaurs took 30 million years to dominate Earth by studying fossilized poop. By ...

Much attention has been paid to the question of what killed the dinosaurs. But how did they arise in the first place? And how did they come to dominate the planet? A new 10-year analysis of dinosaur ...

The analysis of hundreds of fossilized droppings (plus a little bit of petrified vomit) from roughly 230 million years ago ...

Scans of fossilized feces have revealed what the early members of this iconic species ate to help them take over the world.

Using advanced synchrotron imaging, the researchers identified undigested remains of fish, insects, plants, and bones within ...

Fossilized droppings from the Triassic and Jurassic are revealing the diets of some dinosaurs—including a surprising taste ...

The way the dinosaurs relinquished their long dominance is well known. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, ...

In an international collaboration, researchers at Uppsala University have been able to identify undigested food remains, ...

Coprolites—fossilized feces—from the Jurassic hold traces of past meals. These deposits left by a herbivorous dinosaur ...

While it is not quite as big as a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, fossilized poop can help paleontologists recreate lost worlds.