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Dino-sized poop

By Sid Perkins / January 31, 2013

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Ewww: Scientists use poop from living animals to estimate the size of dung dropped by T. rex and other dinos

Posted in Dinosaurs & Fossils | Tagged Argentinosaurus, Arizona; Karen Chin, Boulder; James Farlow, coprolite, dinosaur, dung, feces, forensic science, getinvolved, Indiana University, Mountain Sky Middle School, paleontology, Purdue University, sauropod; Karl Flessa, scat, T. rex, teacher, topstories, Tyrannosaurus rex, University of Arizona; Amber Struthers, University of Colorado

Cool Jobs: Delving into dung

By Roberta Kwok / January 23, 2013

Wood’s colleague, Janet Wilmshurst, studies a piece of moa poop. Credit: Jamie Wood

Scientists uncover fascinating secrets through the study of animal feces

Posted in Animals, STEM Careers | Tagged animal navigation, animal reproduction, baboons, beetles, Brazil, Center for Conservation Biology, Cerrado, chemical markers, Chinook salmon, conservation biology, cool jobs, coprolite, Dactylanthus taylorii, diet, digestion, DNA, DNA fingerprint, droppings, dung, ecology, Emily Baird, endocrinology, excretions, feature, feces, fossils, glucocorticoid, Hades flower, hormones, kakapo, killer whale, Landcare Research, Lund University, manure, moa, New Zealand, oceanography, olfaction, orca, paleontology, pollen, Pollination, poo, poop, scat, stress, Tanzania, topstories, University of Washington, Wasser, whiskers

Shoulder bones fuel debate

By Stephen Ornes / November 16, 2012

This shoulder blade is from a 3-year-old humanlike female who lived more than 3 million years ago. Scientists are studying the fossil to learn whether the creature climbed trees. Credit: Courtesy of Zeresenay Alemseged/Dikika Research Project

Fossil shoulder blades suggest an ancient humanlike species may have been at home in the trees as well as on the ground

Posted in Ancient Times | Tagged adaption, Alemseged, anthropology, Australopithecus afarensis, Big Man, California Academy of Sciences, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, David Green, fossils, getinvolved, great apes, hominids, human origins, humanlike, Lucy, Midwestern University, paleontology, primate evolution, scapula, Selam, shoulder blade, topstories, trees, Yohannes Haile-Selassie

A fishy mammal ID

By Sid Perkins / November 13, 2012

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For more than a century, the fossilized skull of an ancient fish was misidentified as a primate

Posted in Dinosaurs & Fossils | Tagged Argentina, Arrhinolemur scalabrinii, Brian Sidlauskas, dentition, Florentino Ameghino, fossils, genus, George Gaylord Simpson, getinvolved, Greek, John Lundberg; Academy of Natural Sciences, Latin, lemur, Oregon State University, paleontologist, paleontology, primate, South America, species, taxonomy, teeth

Dino find ruffles feathers

By Stephen Ornes / July 27, 2012

The skeleton of Sciurumimus albersdoerferi, embedded in a limestone slab, suggests that feathers might have been the norm for dinosaurs. Credit: H. Tischlinger/Jura Museum Eichstatt

Nearly-perfect, newfound dinosaur fossil reveals more dinos were feathered than previously thought

Posted in Dinosaurs & Fossils | Tagged carnivore, coelurosaur, dinosaur, evolution, feathers, fossil, getinvolved, Luis Chiappe, Mark Norell, meat-eating, megalosaur, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, paleontologist, paleontology, protofeather, topstories