Anyone know what coprolite is? Anyone? Anyone? If anyone had the guts to guess fossilized excrement, they would be right. What is being described as possibly the longest piece of ancient poop ever ...

Ancient reptilian carnivores that resembled modern crocodiles were fearsome hunters, but their scaly armor and sharp teeth couldn’t protect them from parasites, scientists have discovered.

Famous fossil hunter Mary Anning found more than just extinct animals on Dorset's coastline. Fossil collector Mary Anning lived in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in the early 1800s. She is remembered for making ...

The kakapo is a strange little bird. Native to New Zealand, this flightless parrot feels its way through the forest night with a set of modified, whisker-like feathers. And, as Last Chance to See made ...

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: ...

This past Saturday, a private collector paid $10,370 at auction for what was touted as a six-million-year-old turd. Billed in the auction house catalog as fossil feces measuring "an eye-watering 40 ...

History remembers warriors for their conquests and kings for their reigns. But this one Viking left behind something more ...

Recently, 36-year-old George Frandsen of Bradenton, Florida, achieved a Guinness World Record that won't be easy to flush away anytime soon: the largest collection of fossilized poop. Kacey Deamer at ...

The Calvert Marine Museum recently announced a groundbreaking paleontological discovery in which a coprolite — fossilized feces — containing the impression of a new genus and species of parasitic ...

The title of the new Leviathan song, “Gardens of Coprolite,” may induce giggles (coprolite is fossilized shit — not, like, “shit” in the idiomatic sense, like “That new Leviathan album is some good ...

The Orange OHV Trail is located south of Green River, Utah. I don’t know any other trail in the state named after a color. I know that trails are given color-coded difficulty ratings — a green circle ...