A study recently published in the journal Nature sheds new light on how dinosaurs rose to dominance during the Triassic Period, around 200 million years ago. The research team, led by Dr. Martin Qvarnström,

Researchers believe that fossilized feces and vomit from dinosaurs are shedding light on how the ancient creatures evolved to become dominant on Earth. A recently published study analyzed hundreds of fossilized digestive materials from the Triassic period.

Paleontologists at the University of Uppsala in Sweden studied more than 500 pieces of fossilized dinosaur poop to find out how dinosaurs evolved.

Fossilized droppings from the Triassic and Jurassic are revealing the diets of some dinosaurs—including a surprising taste for charcoal.

‘We found bones, teeth, fish scales, plant fragments, and even tiny beetles.’

Jurassic Park may have the tourists, but Triassic Toilet serves up the science. The inner lives of dinosaurs are revealed in Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy, a study by Martin Qvarnström and others published in the journal Nature.

An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take over the world in the early Jurassic

Scientists studied trace fossils called bromalites to reconstruct critical food webs in late Triassic, early Jurassic.

But the way the dinosaurs -- modest creatures initially -- came to supremacy is less well understood. New research that relied heavily on fossilized feces and vomit -- evidence of who is eating what and who is eating whom - provides new clarity on how dinosaurs bested the competition during the Triassic Period.