On a limestone ridge in northern Spain, archaeologists uncovered a single 850,000-year-old vertebra, covered in cut marks.

The Associated Press AMSTERDAM -- Researchers say a curled-up brown fossil dredged up off the Dutch coast is an ancient piece of hyena dung, the first found in the North Sea dating back to the ...

Researchers have uncovered what may be the oldest physical evidence of butterflies or moths, hidden inside a 236-million-year-old coprolite—fossilized feces—recovered from Talampaya National ...

Scientists have analyzed fossilized samples of dinosaur feces to learn more about the ecological influence of dinosaurs about 200 million years ago. In this work, hundreds of samples were tested with ...