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 ...

(CNN) — The earliest dinosaurs were unremarkable, bit players on a supercontinent crowded with other ancient reptiles when they first evolved around 230 million years ago. Fast-forward 30 million ...

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 of ...

For tens of millions of years, dinosaurs dominated the planet – by not being finicky eaters. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature sheds some new light on how that came to be, and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The most surprising aspect was discovering how well-preserved and diverse the food remains inside the fossilised droppings and ...

Fossilized droppings from the Triassic and Jurassic are revealing the diets of some dinosaurs—including a surprising taste for charcoal. Reading time 3 minutes Over the last quarter century, a team of ...

Researchers used fossilized poos, known scientifically as coprolites, to learn more about how dinosaurs came to rule the Earth. (Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki) Researchers have conducted what could be the ...