When paleontologist Martin Qvarnström began peering inside 230-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur dung using an advanced ... some of the “most maligned fossils” under scrutiny.

Dinosaur footprints and worm burrows are examples of trace fossils, as are coprolites (fossilized dung or feces). In the kits, the coprolite (1), theropod track (17), and synapsid track (18) are trace ...

It certainly did in 1976, when paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill and a colleague were tossing elephant dung at each other ... Ian Tattersall calls a fossil of human behavior -- prehistoric walking.

is regularly hidden in statistical reports as “renewable energy:” the burning of dung, wood, and lump coal. While most of the world receives its energy from fossil fuels, over two billion ...