An Arizona museum tells the stories of ancient animals through their fossilized poop

SeattlePi ^ | Updated July 1, 2024 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

The Poozeum - World Famous Dinosaur Poop Museum & Gift Shop

109 West Railroad Avenue, Williams, Arizona 86046, United States

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the link!

[nwrep]

Do they have the ancient species known as Josephus Scrantonus Bidenia?

[SunkenCiv]

They don’t have anything that old.

[Deaf Smith]

???

The movie Jurassic Part gave us five foot tall poop piles of T Rex that also included satellite phones.

[Scrambler Bob]

Doesn’t Dr. Jill want $2 Billion for a “Presidential Library”.

Will it have the history and display of Joe’s poop?

[lee martell]

In some parallel universe, there already are museum tour guides talking about “that ancient species” known as The Homo Sapien in that very same manner. “After AI systems did away with perfunctory reproduction of Humans as keepsakes, pets and novelty or gag gifts, the only thing left behind were their “waste products”.

[alstewartfan]

No imagination necessary!

[BenLurkin]

I bet somebody, somewhere, makes jewelry out of that stuff.

[Nervous Tick]

>> I bet somebody, somewhere, makes jewelry out of that stuff.

Sure. They may not even wait around for it to fossilize. ;-)

[alexander_busek]

Coprolites aren't tremendously common but they can make up the majority of fossils found at some sites

Given that the average herbivore, over the course of its life, will need to eat about 2 lbs of food to gain 1 lb of weight - and that it will then excrete about 2 lbs of feces - I would have thought that, pound for pound, coprolites would be far more common than skeletal fossils (especially insofar as skeletons represent only a fraction of the animal's original body weight).

Must be because feces deteriorate to a greater extent.

Regards,

[Venkman]

“Guinness World Record for being the largest coprolite left by a carnivorous animal”

I hope they named it Bono.

[doorgunner69]

Many years ago, I needed to climb up a tall tower on Tiefort Mountain in Ft Irwin, Mojave desert. Antenna installation at 7-8k feet.

Of course, being such a righteous place for a nest, hawks had populated the tower.

lots of raptor scat. The amount of bones was impressive.
occurred to me a bird expert could have a time analyzing the bird’s diet.

i was impressed how the bird got those bones through the guts.....

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[sauropod]

You wpuld be correct.

[Adder]

“The pooseum? Its up on the turd floor...”

[1FreeAmerican]

So we have enough ancient dinosaur poops to analyze but we still haven't found any Bigfoot scat.

I am depressed.

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe that’s where Fossil watches came from...

[SunkenCiv]

Yup.

[SunkenCiv]

They’ve been at a while. :^) As a kid I was impressed when little deposits of nearly intact guts would be on top of the snow, having been ptui’ed there by, I guess, owls in flight.