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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...