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 ...

It features the world's largest display of coprolites — fossilized poop. Why it matters: Coprolites can shed light on prehistoric animals' habitat, range and diet. Zoom in: Frandsen started ...

The fossilized feces contained four species of parasitic worms: the roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides), the whipworm (Trichuris trichiura), the tapeworm (Taenia sp.), and the Chinese liver fluke ...

“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 time, geologically ...

I thought nothing could be cooler than fossilized poop! That project really blossomed my love for this field, and I never looked back. In an effort to understand ancient plant-insect ...

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 ...

A slab of rock at an Australian high school, a boulder in a parking lot, and a bookend in a private collection feature ...

Other evidence comes à la fossilized poop — or, more delicately, coprolites. If a coprolite can be linked to the creature that made it, any contents can be reasonably identified as a part of ...

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.