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An Arizona museum tells the stories of ancient animals through their fossilized poop
SeattlePi ^ | Updated July 1, 2024 | unattributed

Posted on 07/01/2024 8:30:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

...Bone fragments in a piece of fossilized excrement at a new museum in northern Arizona — aptly called the Poozeum — are among the tinier bits of evidence that indicate T. rex wasn't much of a chewer, but rather swallowed whole chunks of prey.

The sample is one of more than 7,000 on display at the museum that opened in May in Williams, a town known for its Wild West shows along Route 66, wildlife attractions and a railway to Grand Canyon National Park...

Inside, display cases filled with coprolites — fossilized feces from animals that lived millions of years ago — line the walls. They range from minuscule termite droppings to a massive specimen that weighs 20 pounds (9 kilograms)...

Coprolites aren't tremendously common but they can make up the majority of fossils found at some sites, and people have learned more and more about them over the past few decades, said Anthony Fiorillo, executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science...

A highlight of Frandsen's collection is a specimen that holds a Guinness World Record for being the largest coprolite left by a carnivorous animal. Measuring more than 2 feet (61 centimeters) long and over 6 inches (15 centimeters) wide, Frandsen said it's believed to be from a T. rex, given where it was found on a private ranch in South Dakota in 2019...

A highlight of Frandsen's collection is a specimen that holds a Guinness World Record for being the largest coprolite left by a carnivorous animal. Measuring more than 2 feet (61 centimeters) long and over 6 inches (15 centimeters) wide, Frandsen said it's believed to be from a T. rex, given where it was found on a private ranch in South Dakota in 2019.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: arizona; coprolites; dinosaurs; godsgravesglyphs; paleontology; trex; tyrannosaurus; tyrannosaurusrex
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The Poozeum - World Famous Dinosaur Poop Museum & Gift Shop

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

The Poozeum

1 posted on 07/01/2024 8:30:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks for the link!

2 posted on 07/01/2024 8:30:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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


3 posted on 07/01/2024 8:33:23 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

They don’t have anything that old.


4 posted on 07/01/2024 8:34:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv
???

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

5 posted on 07/01/2024 8:42:18 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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

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


6 posted on 07/01/2024 8:53:11 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: SunkenCiv

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”.


7 posted on 07/01/2024 8:53:19 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SunkenCiv

No imagination necessary!


8 posted on 07/01/2024 8:54:27 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: SunkenCiv

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


9 posted on 07/01/2024 9:37:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

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

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


10 posted on 07/01/2024 10:16:27 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: SunkenCiv
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,

11 posted on 07/01/2024 10:27:33 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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“Guinness World Record for being the largest coprolite left by a carnivorous animal”

I hope they named it Bono.

12 posted on 07/01/2024 10:48:37 PM PDT by Venkman
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To: SunkenCiv

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.....


13 posted on 07/01/2024 11:07:48 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: SunkenCiv

Bkmk


14 posted on 07/02/2024 1:36:36 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: BenLurkin

You wpuld be correct.


15 posted on 07/02/2024 1:38:36 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: SunkenCiv

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


16 posted on 07/02/2024 2:22:55 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: SunkenCiv
So we have enough ancient dinosaur poops to analyze but we still haven't found any Bigfoot scat.

I am depressed.

17 posted on 07/02/2024 6:03:25 AM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: BenLurkin

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


18 posted on 07/02/2024 8:14:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: alexander_busek

Yup.


19 posted on 07/02/2024 8:14:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: doorgunner69

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.


20 posted on 07/02/2024 8:16:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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