Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...

Diatryma geiselensis was approximately 1.4 m (4.6 feet) tall and was member of an extinct order of giant flightless fowl called Gastornithiformes. “Some of the most unusual birds that populated the ...