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Exhibits feature detailed explanations of how coprolites are formed, discovered and analyzed.
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Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
These factors determine whether the coprolite is worth a few dollars or a few thousand dollars.
—Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2024
The same fossil bed yielded ancient sponges, crinoids, and ammonite coprolites and beaks.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 18 May 2024
And human fossilized poop, or coprolites, showed that at least some inhabitants suffered from intestinal worms.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
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Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
These factors determine whether the coprolite is worth a few dollars or a few thousand dollars.
—Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2024
The same fossil bed yielded ancient sponges, crinoids, and ammonite coprolites and beaks.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 18 May 2024
And human fossilized poop, or coprolites, showed that at least some inhabitants suffered from intestinal worms.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coprolite
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Despite the official ban, about 6% of the 1140 sampling events included cattle dung.ByGeoffrey Kamadi, science.org, 10 Sep. 2024
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To paint a clearer picture of the park’s past, researchers from multiple universities analyzed the steroids present in animal dung — unearthed from lake sediments that range from around 238 B.C. to the present day.Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
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This is by design; his sometime advisor Steve Bannon advocated flooding the zone with, well, excrement, so that media couldn’t keep up.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Director Shawn Levy stages the cartoonish violence with less verve than David Leitch’s in Deadpool 2, which featured the franchise’s paradigmatic transition — from the close-up of a sphincter to a human eye — making the point that this is all excrement.Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2024
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It is not known who is behind any of the statues, though The Washington Post revealed that the National Park Service permit for the poop monument was sent by filmmaker Julia Jimenez-Pyzik.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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What an absolute joy to see a pack of motley mutts trotting around St. Ann’s Warehouse, promenaded by everyone from Sandra Bernhard to Naomi Fry wearing matching toile puffers and beaded poop bag carriers.Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
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On the face of it, packing the ordure of millions into open-air mounds is a terrible approach to a more livable planet, particularly in a part of the world where scavengers don’t comb through them for every salable scrap.Curbed, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
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Even a seemingly natural savannah, the African grasslands in the Mara-Serengeti, has benefited from the healing powers of animal ordure, produced by the livestock of human herders thousands of years ago.Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2018
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Plate-sized globs of bear scat lay everywhere, and the bruins’ beds cratered the forest floor.Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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All around her The future is scattered, written in scat, And the limp fawn waits for its arrival, breathless.T. R. Hummer, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Gross and his team discovered that the new buds blossom around the time when the fish transition from eating larval crustaceans to gobbling up their adulthood staple: bat guano.Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2024
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The smell of bat droppings, or guano, wafts up from the cave when the breeze is low.Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2024
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Organic dairy CAFOs, including some in Sonoma, share some of the characteristics of conventional ones, like the use of manure lagoons — giant pools of animal waste that pollute air and water and can harm human health.Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 10 Oct. 2024
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Refill it with native soil and some compost (and even some aged manure) prior to planting.Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2024
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Over four decades later, new soil samples taken from the same regions still indicated a better fungi and bacteria presence than the areas that did not host gophers.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Companies like Descartes Labs use AI to analyze satellite imagery, providing real-time insights into soil health, crop yields and water availability.Shelli Brunswick, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Coprolite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coprolite. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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