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Recent Examples of coprolite
Plants Drove Early Dinosaur Evolution Large coprolite with fish remains: A coprolite fragment densely packed with fish bones, likely produced by the phytosaur Paleorhinus.
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
Frandsen has coprolites from all around the world–Montana, Florida, the United Kingdom, France, Morocco, Russia, and more.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
Frandsen initially used his coprolite collection to launch an online resource center in 2014.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
The museum is home to the world’s largest collection of coprolites, or bits of fossilized dung.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
Frandsen has coprolites from all around the world–Montana, Florida, the United Kingdom, France, Morocco, Russia, and more.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
Frandsen initially used his coprolite collection to launch an online resource center in 2014.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
The museum is home to the world’s largest collection of coprolites, or bits of fossilized dung.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coprolite
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The resort itself, a modern build of canvas, stone, and walls of concrete mixed with elephant dung (an ode to the pachyderms and a textural accent) has an intimate atmosphere and just 10 suites.Tanveer Badal, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2024
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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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The poop was exhaustively analyzed by a research team of more than a dozen scientists using advanced techniques, and even a synchrotron particle accelerator, to probe each piece of excrement down to the molecular level.Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
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The site at 1157 E. Taylor St. has faced its share of difficulties, as homeless residents previously set up camps there in squalid conditions, leaving trash, shopping carts and human excrement.Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
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Each transaction, in or out, adds to the number of poops.David Phelan, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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All of that poop was extensively analyzed by researchers and used to build food webs showing what the emerging dinosaur species were eating and how their diet evolved.Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 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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The scat back completed the game with five carries and 35 total yards as the Lions and Bills competed in an aerial shootout.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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Winters is leading the field work on the ecology side, which involves deploying a massive camera trap grid in areas where wolf packs reside in addition to collecting scat and investigating areas where the predators have spent a certain amount of time.Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
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The team also found guano, or bat and bird poop, in the hearth.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Definitely for the best, as bat guano in the chunnel started everybody hallucinating.Charlie Mason, TVLine, 3 Nov. 2024
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Such milk is being produced in conditions where animal health is compromised, antibiotics are utilized, hormones are used to stimulate higher levels of milk production, there is an abundance of manure, and there is a corresponding high rate of pathogens.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, greens or nitrogen consist of grass clippings, kitchen waste, and manure.Lauren David, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2024
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In 2024, researchers published findings in the journal Nature that showed European permaculture projects cultivated soil that sequestered significantly more carbon than what is found on nearby traditional farms.Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
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This includes tender perennials like dahlias, cannas, gladiolus, agapanthus, and elephant ears. Plants in Fluctuating Temperatures In regions with frequent freeze-thaw cycles, especially in USDA Hardiness Zones 7 and 8, soil can shift and expose roots to damage.Macie Stump, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Coprolite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coprolite. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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