At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...

For that information, researchers often turn to another source: fossilized poop. Fossilized feces—also known as “coprolites”—can shed light on “the last day or two [of] behavior of an ...

NEW YORK — Using fossilized feces and vomit samples from Poland, scientists have reconstructed how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth millions of years ago. Researchers aren’t sure whether ...

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There are also colonites, food preserved in intestines, and perhaps the most popular of them all, coprolites, a.k.a. fossilized feces. Bicknell also studies ancient ocean predators, but with a ...

Dinosaur footprints and worm burrows are examples of trace fossils, as are coprolites (fossilized dung or feces). In the kits, the coprolite (1), theropod track (17), and synapsid track (18) are trace ...

These remains, including bones, footprints and even fossilized feces, help the scientists to put together the puzzle of life millions of years ago. These fossils give important information about ...

and coprolites — fossilized poop. Bromalites are in turn part of the record of "trace fossils." They aren't the remains of the animal itself, but of how it lived. "Regurgitalites give us a ...