The study of vertebrate coprolites, or fossilised faeces, provides an invaluable window into past ecosystems, offering direct evidence of diet, digestion, and trophic interactions that are otherwise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as “dassies”, are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible ...

We were already familiar with fossilised droppings, called coprolites. But a recent discovery shows that regurgitation can also become fossilised. At the Bromacker paleontological site in Germany, a ...

W e were already familiar with fossilised droppings, called coprolites. But a recent discovery shows that regurgitation can also become fossilised. At the Bromacker paleontological site in Germany, a ...

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as “dassies”, are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible tails. They spend much of their time sunning themselves on rocky ...