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.

To better understand the extinct giants, Qvarnström and his colleagues investigated overlooked fossils known as bromalites: remnants from the digestive system — aka dinosaur poop and vomit.

But there’s one type of dinosaur fossil that’s sometimes overlooked: poop. Its scientific name is coprolite. These fossilized feces are rarer than their boney counterparts, but they’re key to better ...

They gathered all the fossilized poop they could, from dinosaurs and other animals as well. They ended up with over 500 samples. Sponsor Message "That's a lot of poop," Qvarnström says.

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 ...

Over the last quarter century, a team of paleontologists has collected and studied coprolites—fossilized poop—and dinosaur vomit, millions of years old, from what is now Poland. The team has ...

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 dinosaurs' rise ...