Here we present the first egg of Ascaridoidea preserved containing morula, from a bird coprolite recovered from the shales of the Tremembé Formation. Three coprolites, from the outcrop of Aligra ...

So in the summer of 2021, Aase dropped off 5-gallon buckets at the quarries and asked diggers to toss in coprolites — the fossilized poop that is abundant at these sites. When the buckets filled, he ...

If a coprolite contains bone fragments, chances are the animal who excreted it was a carnivore, and tooth marks on those fragments can tell us something about how the animal may have eaten its prey.

This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who studied hundreds of fossilized droppings—or "coprolites"—to help build a model of early dinosaur success. "Studying ...