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Recent Examples of coprolite
These factors determine whether the coprolite is worth a few dollars or a few thousand dollars.
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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
The study looked at the coprolites from two pre-Columbian cultures called the Huecoid and Saladoid.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
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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
The study looked at the coprolites from two pre-Columbian cultures called the Huecoid and Saladoid.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coprolite
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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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Homes are made of mud and dung, sandals are made of recycled tires, and there are taboos against cutting down live trees and eating wildlife.Christine Ro, Forbes, 9 Sep. 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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Watch this 💩 Art with a message: Someone placed a bronze replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk — topped with a giant pile of poop — near the US Capitol in Washington, DC.Daniel Wine, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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Elevate her dog walks and hikes with this chic Springer set, which includes a hands-free leash that attaches to a luxe neoprene belt bag, perfect for stashing dog treats, poop bags, her wallet, keys, and phone.Elizabeth Mitchell Kadar, Glamour, 28 Oct. 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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According to the Department of Environment and Water, scat is wild animal poo.Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024
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Groundhog scat, on the other hand, is usually a bit bigger and isn’t as uniform in size.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 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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The rule of law The Takei family spent the first night after their arrest squeezed into a horse stall at a local racetrack, with flies buzzing overhead, overwhelmed by the stench of horse manure.Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
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Ten years ago, in 2014, the Yale School for the Environment published a study that showed that biochar made from plant fodder and/or even chicken manure could be used to remove mercury from power plant emissions and clean polluted soil.Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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True lilies need well-draining soil and should be planted in an area that receives full sun or some light shade and within their Hardiness Zone.Lauren David, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2024
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Unlike typical droughts, which can develop over extended periods, flash droughts emerge due to a combination of high temperatures, low humidity, intense sunlight, and strong winds, which speed up the drying of soils and vegetation.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Coprolite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coprolite. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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