Fossilized feces—also known as “coprolites”—can ... are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand.

Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

Still, it's real: remarkable insights into New Zealand's ancient ecosystem were found through the unlikely hero of fossilized poop. Ancient flightless birds called Moa were crucial in spreading ...

A 150 million-year-old fossil reveals early bird diversification in Jurassic Period. (photo credit: from video by Ren Wenyu) Scientists described two fossilized birds from the Jurassic period in a ...

This suggests that birds might have originated earlier than previously thought. The fossilized bird Baminornis zhenghensis was discovered in Zhenghe County, Fujian Province. Its short tail ends in ...