A bird feather found in fossilized dinosaur poop is the best-preserved feather ever recovered by paleontologists from dinosaur-era rock, according to a new study.

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Discovered in Montana in 2016, the cherry-size coprolite contains feathers, bones and evidence of the bird's last meal before the creature was eaten by a theropod ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University has analyzed fossilized dinosaur droppings—known as coprolites—to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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(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 ...