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.
It's hard believe now, but we weren't always the only hominins walking around on Earth, and in the past, multiple hominins lived at the same time.
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 ...
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 ...