Fossil dung reveals clues to dinosaur success story
Press release
A duo of sauropodomorphs; one munching on the newly evolved plants in a wet Early Jurassic environment whilst the other is looking up as if there was something hiding in the vegetation. Illustration: Marcin Ambrozik.
In an international collaboration, researchers at Uppsala University have been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilised faeces of dinosaurs. These analyses of hundreds of samples provide clues about the role dinosaurs played in the ecosystem around 200 million years ago. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08265-4
For more information:
Martin Qvarnström, researcher, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
Email: martin.qvarnstrom@ebc.uu.se, mobile: +46 70 837 78 23
Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, researcher, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
Email: grzegorz.niedzwiedzki@ebc.uu.se, mobile: +46 70 220 61 16
