Everyone poops—even dinosaurs. If you’re curious about the bowel movements of now-extinct creatures like Tyrannosaurus rex ...

In a unique paleontological breakthrough, the Calvert Marine Museum has revealed the discovery of an ancient coprolite, or ...

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A little bit of everything included a coprolite, or fossilized poop. “Found it in poop," Osborne said while chuckling. In that fossilized poop, Osborne found something certainly unique.

Scientists can learn a lot about its diet by studying its poop (see graphic). Pieces of bones found in fossilised dinosaur ...

A newly discovered frog fossil represents the oldest tadpole ever found, and it looks remarkably like the tadpoles you’re probably familiar with except for one thing—it was a giant.

Palaeontologists found the fossil in January 2020 while searching for feathered dinosaurs in Santa Cruz province in Argentina. “They did not achieve their goal,” says Mariana Chuliver at ...

The fossilized remains of a nearly 75-million-year-old “swamp dweller” have been discovered by paleontologists in northwest Colorado. The University of Colorado team behind the discovery has ...

Meet some of your famous family members. / Man_Half-tube/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (skull); filo/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (background) Here are 10 ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...

As the shock wave’s pressure decreases, we hear thunder. Fulgurites, also known as fossilized lightning, don’t have a fixed composition: they are composed of whatever they’re composed of at ...