WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Don't laugh, but the discovery of the oldest known human poop is offering valuable scientific insight into the life of Neanderthals who lived in Spain some 50,000 years ago.

a musuem exhibit with a dinosaur skeleton. a picture of actor jeff goldblum saying "that is a one big pile of poop" is in the lower left. The Poozeum and all of its specimens were collected by George ...

MARYLAND, USA — Scientists have discovered an extremely rare fossil on the Calvert Cliffs on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. The fossil found is called a trace fossil, which shows ...

Xiaoming Wang, vertebrate paleontology curator for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, has studied extinct “bone-crushing” dogs for most of his career. These ancient canines lived ...

As a graduate student, Karen Chin worked on a dinosaur dig site in Montana with the renowned paleontologist Jack Horner. Her job was to cut thin sections from fossilized skeletons in order to analyze ...

Fossilized feces preserve evidence of ancient parasites that infected an aquatic predator over 200 million years ago, according to a study published August 9, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE ...

MARYLAND, USA — Scientists have discovered an extremely rare fossil on the Calvert Cliffs on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. The fossil found is called a trace fossil, which shows ...

Two hundred and thirty-six million years ago, an ancient herbivore took a dump that would blow 21-century minds. You see, that poop contained what would become the oldest-known evidence of butterflies ...

A recent announcement that a fossil discovery in India was just residue from a bee’s nest was a reminder of the importance of science correcting itself. By Joshua Sokol At its best, paleontology opens ...