Over 500 fossilized poops show how dinosaurs came to rule the Earth toggle caption Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki Researchers have conducted what could be the largest study ever of dinosaur poop. "The first dinosaur ancestors were opportunistic," says Martin Qvarnström, a paleontologist at Uppsala University in Sweden, who led the study. "We know a lot about the life and extinction of the …
LOADING ERROR LOADING WILLIAMS, Ariz. — One way to help tell how a Tyrannosaurus rex digested food is to look at its poop. Bone fragments in a piece of fossilized excrement at a new museum in northern Arizona — aptly called the Poozeum — are among the tinier bits of evidence that indicate T. rex wasn’t much of a chewer, …
WILLIAMS, Ariz. — One way to help tell how a Tyrannosaurus rex digested food is to look at its poop. President and curator George Frandsen stands for a photograph inside his “Poozeum”, Friday, June 7, 2024 in Williams, Ariz. President and curator George Frandsen stands for a photograph inside his “Poozeum”, Friday, June 7, 2024 in Williams, Ariz. Share Share …
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “Our results give us new ways to think about the environment and way of life of old animals,” said lead study author Thanit Nonsrirach, a vertebrate paleontologist in the department of biology at Mahasarakham University in Kham Riang, Thailand. However, “it’s plausible that the coprolite originated from an animal similar to crocodiles …
