Earlier this year, Smithsonian published an article, “Where Dinosaurs Roamed,” that touched briefly on the war between the two men who started us down the path to our current dinosaur obsession: ...

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. Researchers have conducted ...

At one point, there were a lot of dinosaurs roaming around the earth. They definitely pooped. So why don't archaeologists find fossilized scat all over the place? Paleoscatologists, as they're called, ...

The poop on the table looks remarkably fresh. But don't worry, it's OK to touch it. In fact, you're encouraged to do so. First, it's many millions of years old. And second, it's not really poop, but a ...

While it is not quite as big as a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, fossilized poop can help paleontologists recreate lost worlds. It can tell scientists what extinct animals like dinosaurs ate, but more ...

While the fossilized skeletons stick out in images from books or movies in our mind as the primary evidence that dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures walked the earth, they can’t tell us the ...

Prehistoric poop is full of secrets. Now, one of those secrets—the key to the rise and dominion of dinosaurs—might have finally been revealed. In a new study, scientists analyzed hundreds of ...