It was not always easy being a dinosaur. When they scampered onto the scene 230 million years ago, these “terrible lizards” ...
Dinosaurs took 30 million years to become dominant Other animals initially ruled the Triassic landscape Feces fossils show some herbivores ingested charcoal New research that relied heavily on ...
Scientists studied trace fossils called bromalites to reconstruct critical food webs in late Triassic, early Jurassic.
An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take ...
Studying bromalites helped paleontologists piece together how the reptiles came to rule a part of the prehistoric world. Coprolites of herbivorous dinosaurs that were found to contain numerous ...