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 ...

Fossilised faeces reveal 200-million-year-old dietary habits Charcoal in dung hints at detox strategies of early herbivores Adaptability ensured dinosaurs thrived through environmental changes ...

According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic end. For months, scientists conclude, dense clouds of dust blocked the sun ...

An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University has analyzed fossilized dinosaur droppings—known as coprolites—to uncover details about the diets and ecological roles of ...

The contents of 200-million-year-old faeces and vomit are helping show how dinosaurs took over the world at the start of the Jurassic Period. Well-preserved plants, bones, fish parts and even ...

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Left: Fossil faeces of the bone-crushing archosaur Smok, with a Smok reconstruction in the background; right: A duo of sauropodomorphs. An international team led by researchers at Uppsala ...

While you might think of places like Drumheller, Alta., as the centre of the dinosaur world, Saskatchewan might have a lot more to offer than you might think. Recently, paleontologists from McGill ...

Environmental changes linked to Earth's increased volcanic activity precipitated a wider range of plants that ever-larger herbivorous dinosaurs exploited.

Hundreds of samples of fossilised faeces, vomit and intestinal contents were analysed to understand dinosaur evolution in Poland. Researchers suggest that changes in the climate may have helped ...