Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

And the rise of the dinosaurs to a dominance that lasted 165 million years has now been charted… in the fossilized poop and puke ... various types of bromalite: coprolites (fossilized feces ...

Dinosaur poop is providing vital clues about ... internal parts of the fossilized feces, known as coprolites, in detail. By identifying undigested food remains, plants and prey, they have ...

So in the summer of 2021, Aase dropped off 5-gallon buckets at the quarries and asked diggers to toss in coprolites — the fossilized poop that is abundant at these sites. When the buckets filled, he ...

In the video above Heather Middleton, a local fossil hunter, explores the less glamorous side of the legendary collector's career: fossilised poo. Coprolites are the fossilised faeces of animals that ...

They show an organism was there, but are not the actual organism itself (which would be a body fossil). Dinosaur footprints and worm burrows are examples of trace fossils, as are coprolites ...

The Poozeum has more than 7,000 coprolites on display ... He said he had already loved dinosaurs and fossils but had never heard of fossilised poop. “It was funny. It was gross,” he said.

The Poozeum, with its more than 7,000 coprolite specimens ... He already loved dinosaurs and fossils but had never heard of fossilised poop. “It was funny. It was gross,” he said.

Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead organism. The process by which a fossil is formed ...