As a graduate student, Karen Chin worked on a dinosaur dig site in Montana with the renowned paleontologist Jack Horner. Her job was to cut thin sections from fossilized skeletons in order to analyze ...

(CNN) — The earliest dinosaurs were unremarkable, bit players on a supercontinent crowded with other ancient reptiles when they first evolved around 230 million years ago. Fast-forward 30 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The most surprising aspect was discovering how well-preserved and diverse the food remains inside the fossilised droppings and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rise of The Dinosaurs Can Be Tracked in Their Fossilized Poop Majestic. Thunderous. Powerful. Their mighty tread and sonorous ...

Fossilized droppings from the Triassic and Jurassic are revealing the diets of some dinosaurs—including a surprising taste for charcoal. Reading time 3 minutes Over the last quarter century, a team of ...

Scientists have analyzed fossilized samples of dinosaur feces to learn more about the ecological influence of dinosaurs about 200 million years ago. In this work, hundreds of samples were tested with ...

An artist's depiction of two sauropodomorphs in a wet Early Jurassic environment, eating the newly evolved plants. Marcin Ambrozik Prehistoric poop is full of secrets. Now, one of those secrets—the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

For tens of millions of years, dinosaurs dominated the planet – by not being finicky eaters. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature sheds some new light on how that came to be, and the ...

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