Researchers reconstructed the Triassic food web using nothing but scat.
Researchers have conducted what could be the largest study ever of dinosaur poop. The findings shed new light on how dinosaur's diets allowed them to dominate the planet.
"We know a lot about the life and extinction of the dinosaurs, but not so much the rise of the dinosaurs," Qvarnström says.At the beginning of the Triassic period, dinosaurs were one of many lizards roaming the Earth."Most of the animals in the ecosystem were the various relatives of crocodiles," Qvarnström says.
Lawrence Tanner, a professor of environmental science at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., says interest in fossilized coprolites goes way back.
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