How I found the world's oldest communal dinosaur toilet
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 07:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Fossils can tell us lots about animals – their size, age or sex, which is mostly physical characteristics. Evidence about how they may have behaved is rare. But the 240m-year-old fossil dung that I found, along with my colleagues, in Argentina gave us some of those rare insights into the behaviour of a long-extinct animal. Simply put, we unearthed what are the oldest-known communal toilets used by animals.