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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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To: Hi Heels
"will be published in an international magazine shortly"
This always looks good on your resume.
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:50:29 PM PDT
by
Deguello
(Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to play.)
To: Hi Heels
I'm sure this is a great and profound discovery that will change the way we view our world or lead to some new technology that allows us to microwave our food faster or something, but I'm just glad I don't work in a field where I get excited about worm sh ...
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:55:14 PM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
To: Hi Heels
A thread on ancient worm castings: Now that's some serious crap!
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:56:14 PM PDT
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: Hi Heels
I could hardly wait to post it, I'm tellin' ya.
LOL ... You've been planning this!
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:58:09 PM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
To: PatrickHenry
Worm feces ping list...?!
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posted on
04/12/2006 2:59:13 PM PDT
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: nmh
" wonder how they dated this ... ."
The little, teeny-tiny, Sears catalog.
In seriousness, by the layer and other known fossils.
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posted on
04/12/2006 3:00:15 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: nmh
"I wonder how they dated this ..." By measuring the the rate of decay of the radioactive isotopes in the surrounding igneous rock.
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/resources/Wiens.html
To: RetiredArmy
This is what you pay taxes for and our wonderful congress gives away to these people. Congress gives money to Swedish geologists?
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posted on
04/12/2006 3:06:48 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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To: Hi Heels
"Howdy-ho!" Mr. Hankey would be sooooo proud...
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posted on
04/12/2006 3:42:12 PM PDT
by
Zeppo
To: PatrickHenry
Swedish geologists have found fossilized feces from a worm that lived some 500 million years ago, media reports said Wednesday. You'll really start a thread about any old shit, won't you?
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:18:59 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(I have the updated "Your brain on creationism" on my homepage.)
To: sully777
Worm feces ping list...?!Our first ping since the reconciliation.
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posted on
04/12/2006 5:23:08 PM PDT
by
js1138
(~()):~)>)
To: Hi Heels
Reminds me of Patton who said:
Thirty years from now when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee, and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II?" -- you won't have to say, "Well, I shoveled Coprolite in Sweden."
To: Hi Heels
Mrs. Fury and I were just talking about this over breakfast this morning - has any fossilized worm feces ever been found? Thanks for posting this - very timely!
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posted on
04/12/2006 5:42:33 PM PDT
by
Fury
To: RadioAstronomer; PatrickHenry
Time to deploy your worm feces ping list.LOL! Make sure you add it to the list of ping lists. You crack me up RA.
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:09:55 AM PDT
by
FOG724
(http://nationalgrange.org/legislation/phpBB2/index.php)
To: Hi Heels
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posted on
04/13/2006 1:57:29 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Build the fence. Sí, Se Puede!)
To: PatrickHenry
To: PatrickHenry; Hi Heels
Geologists Find Ancient Worm Feces
Sorry, PH and HH, I'm way too pooped to think of anything amusing to say about this story...really crapped out...
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