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 ...

The coprolite fossil preserves the shape of a small parasitic isopod, now identified as a new genus and species named ...

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 ...