Researchers have used fossil feces to study dinosaur diets, revealing how diverse eating habits contributed to their evolutionary success in the Late Triassic. A team of paleontologists from Uppsala ...

Illustration: Martin Qvarnström The adaptability revealed in these findings underscores the critical role of diet in the survival and success of dinosaurs. The Late Triassic period was marked ...

said Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, one of the contributing authors. The coprolites revealed an unexpected variety of diet for these dinosaurs that included fish, insects, large animals, plants, and even ...

Scientists analyzing 200-million-year-old fossilized feces and vomit have uncovered new insights into how dinosaurs became Earth’s dominant species. The study, published in Nature, highlights the role ...

Dinosaur poop is providing vital clues about "who ate whom" 200 million years ago. Researchers have been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilized feces of the ...

Fossilized droppings from the Triassic and Jurassic are revealing the diets of some dinosaurs—including a surprising taste ...

suggested that creature had a restricted diet, feeding principally on conifers. It disappeared from the fossil record around 200 million years ago. Dinosaurs, on the other hand, appeared to eat a ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This illustration provided by Marcin Ambrozik shows plant-eating dinosaurs in Poland during the Early ...

Early dinosaurs rose to dominance because they ate a lot of plants. This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who studied hundreds of fossilized droppings—or "coprolites ...

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. The analysis of hundreds ...