A prehistoric clue, buried deep in time, has just changed the story of evolution as we know it. It came from an unlikely source: a hardened piece of animal waste left untouched for 236 million years.

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies," are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no ...

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 ...

Fossils usually leave us with bones turned to stone, the hard remains of creatures long gone. But every so often, nature offers something far rarer — a glimpse of soft tissue that survived for ...

Learn about a new world’s first: a South African rock hyrax that scooted its way into the fossil record and is highlighting the importance of paleoichnology.

The Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History features fossils that range from 7,000 to 7 million years-old. Image: Jim Pollard/Southern Minnesota Museum of ...

Would you lick a 65-million-year old dinosaur poop? Granted, it’s not a question many people ask themselves - but for George Frandsen it’s a firm, “Yes!”. Not merely a dinosaur fossil hunter, George ...