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

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 ...

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 ...

I am interested in how ancient communities of organisms differed from modern ecosystems in composition and organization. Much of my work focuses on tapping information available in permineralized ...

Although they may look like nothing more than pale rocks, these fossilized feces are treasure troves of genetic material, offering clues not only about the producer of the feces, but also about ...

“Wait,” he thought. “We have space in the bathrooms!” And what do you exhibit in the bathroom of a park famous for its fossils? Fossilized feces, of course. A little fuzzy on the different eras of ...

The study also sets the record for the oldest recovered ancient DNA from fossilized feces, or coprolites. In a rock shelter 3,582 m above sea level in Argentina, the researchers found the puma ...

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 ...

During a recent excavation Ainara Sistiaga, a geo-archeologist from MIT uncovered an unexpected treasure —five pieces of 50,000-year-old fossilized feces — some of the oldest in the world.