A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature sheds some new light on how that came to be, and the research behind it has a whole lot to do with one thing: fossilized dinosaur poop.

Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how the dinosaurs rose to power — by studying dino puke and poop. The findings ... creatures that looked like giant toads,]" Niedźwiedzki ...

A chicken-sized dino, the oldest known in North America, has thrown a wrench in the widely accepted timeline of early dinosaur history.