a musuem exhibit with a dinosaur skeleton. a picture of actor jeff goldblum saying "that is a one big pile of poop" is in the lower left. The Poozeum and all of its specimens were collected by George ...

As a graduate student, Karen Chin worked on a dinosaur dig site in Montana with the renowned paleontologist Jack Horner. Her job was to cut thin sections from fossilized skeletons in order to analyze ...

Fossilized feces preserve evidence of ancient parasites that infected an aquatic predator over 200 million years ago, according to a study published August 9, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Don't laugh, but the discovery of the oldest known human poop is offering valuable scientific insight into the life of Neanderthals who lived in Spain some 50,000 years ago.

When paleontologist Martin Qvarnström began peering inside 230-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur dung using an advanced X-ray technology, he wasn’t sure he’d see anything of interest. But embedded ...

Chunks of raw meat? Boring. A plateful of ferns? Ho-hum. Newfound fossil poop shows some dinosaurs preferred exotic fare: crab-like crustaceans and rotten wood. The reptiles in question were thought ...

Find out more about Body Fossils and Trace Fossils. Fossils can be categorized in two basic types: body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossils help scientists learn what plants and animals looked ...

A new fossil park is being developed in Columbus, Mississippi, within the existing Propst Park. The park will allow the public to search for fossils from 84 million years ago, including dinosaur bones ...