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Geologists Find Ancient Worm Feces
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Posted on 04/12/2006 2:35:08 PM PDT by Hi Heels
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish geologists have found fossilized feces from a worm that lived some 500 million years ago, media reports said Wednesday.
The tiny piles of feces were found embedded in rock-face near Malmo in southern Sweden by geologists Mats Eriksson and Fredrik Terfelt, newspaper Sydsvenskan reported.
Eriksson told the newspaper they examined the level of phosphorus of the samples and that "we realized pretty soon that it could not be anything other than coprolites, in other words fossilized dung."
Terfelt described the find as "unique."
"Cambrian scientists will certainly find them very interesting," Terfelt said.
The two are researching geology at Lund University in southern Sweden, and said they are working on an article about the find that will be published in an international magazine shortly.
"It is inevitable to joke about this, so we gave it the title 'Anomalous faces and ancient feces,'" Eriksson said.
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:35:09 PM PDT
by
Hi Heels
To: Hi Heels
This is one of the earthshaking discoveries of the 21st century, to be sure.
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:36:27 PM PDT
by
dinoparty
To: Hi Heels
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:36:58 PM PDT
by
mwyounce
To: Hi Heels
Looks like worm feces... Mmmm... smells like worm feces... Yech! Tastes like worm feces...
Good thing I didn't step in it!
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:37:08 PM PDT
by
Paloma_55
(Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
To: Hi Heels
And they're actually getting paid to dig up worm poo.
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:37:16 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
To: dinoparty
I could hardly wait to post it, I'm tellin' ya.
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:37:38 PM PDT
by
Hi Heels
(Don't you wish there were a knob on the computer to turn up the intelligence?)
To: Hi Heels
500 million year old poop!
LOL!!!
I wonder how they dated this ... .
LOL!!!
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:38:26 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
To: Hi Heels
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:40:19 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
To: PatrickHenry
Time to deploy your worm feces ping list.
(I know that one has not been used for quite a while) :-)
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:40:38 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: nmh
I wonder how they dated this ... Taste test?
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:40:55 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Gonna shake it, gonna break it, let's forget it better still)
To: Hi Heels
Geologists Find Ancient Worm FecesJimmah Carter?
To: nmh
"500 million year old poop"
Why has there been no Helen Thomas pic yet?
To: Hi Heels
So now can I say "you are lower than,coprolites, in other words fossilized dung." vs Snail Crap?
To: Hi Heels
Let me know when they find the prehistoric worms that made the poo. We can go fishing for acanthodians.
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:43:00 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
To: nmh
"500 million year old (worm) poop!...I wonder how they dated this ... " Every time I buy a tin, it's got the date stamped on the bottom....
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:43:22 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Hi Heels
Your tax dollars at work folks. This is what you pay taxes for and our wonderful congress gives away to these people. /sarcasm fully loaded and never off.
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:44:13 PM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(Politicians are in it for themselves, to get reelected, to benefit them, not we the people.)
To: Hi Heels
I'd feel like a worm if, eons from now, they found my BM interesting, but didn't know jack about ME.
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:44:38 PM PDT
by
Migraine
(...diversity is great (until it happens to you)...)
To: Hi Heels
Speaking of worm feces.
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:45:51 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
To: longshadow; VadeRetro; balrog666; Senator Bedfellow; RadioAstronomer; js1138; whattajoke; Shryke; ..
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:47:08 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Yo momma's so fat she's got a Schwarzschild radius.)
To: Hi Heels
Worm feces? Umm. I'm no bologist or whatever, but isn't that
DIRT?
Gee... so I guess an alternate but accurate title would be: "Geologists discover dirt". Film at 11.
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:47:22 PM PDT
by
AFreeBird
(your mileage may vary)
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