Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how the dinosaurs rose to power — by studying dino puke and poop. The findings, published Nov. 27 in the journal Nature, offer new insights ...

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.

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

An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University has analyzed fossilized dinosaur droppings—known as coprolites—to uncover details about the diets and ecological roles of ...

And the rise of the dinosaurs to a dominance that lasted 165 million years has now been charted… in the fossilized poop and puke they left behind. Yep, that's right. By collecting hundreds of ...

Researchers have conducted what could be the largest study ever of dinosaur poop. The findings shed new light on how dinosaur's diets allowed them to dominate the planet. (This story first aired ...