At that point, each one looked like a tan piece of rock with an unremarkable bump on its surface formed by the coprolite inside. She drew a square around every bump to indicate where the rock needed ...

What was on the T. rex menu? These fearsome predators devoured massive herbivores, juvenile dinosaurs, and even engaged in ...

Coprolites can also contain clues about an animal's diet. For example, a spiral-shaped coprolite may have been left by an ancient shark or another kind of fish. This is based on the knowledge that ...

More than 100 species are already known. A number of rib fragments and a coprolite, or fossilized feces, were found in the ...

Other evidence comes à la fossilized poop — or, more delicately, coprolites. If a coprolite can be linked to the creature that made it, any contents can be reasonably identified as a part of ...

15. Coprolites: Fossilized excrement can be clues to the diets of extinct animals. The challenge is matching the coprolite to the organism. Even tiny organisms can leave coprolites. Look at the ...

A T. rex coprolite (Photo: Royal Saskatchewan Museum) Paleontologists also made another amazing discovery alongside her — the only known T. rex ‘coprolite’ in the world — a 65-million-year ...

We probably all know what coprolite is (or was – it’s fossilised faeces) and that Coprolite Street was named after the fertiliser factory immediately to the south of the access road leading to ...

Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead organism. The process by which a fossil is formed ...

More than 100 species are already known. A number of rib fragments and a coprolite, or fossilized feces, were found in the area as well, but they were not definitively attributed to the same animal.