Dinosaur Dung Fertilizes Planet, New Research Shows

Science Daily / Science News ^ | October 16, 2017 | Northern Arizona University

[SunkenCiv]

That was also Darwin’s take on it, there’s more at the, uh, third link up near the top.

Earthworms survived the K-T extinction, and all the other mass extinctions that mark the paleontological era boundaries. Plus, they won’t hunt and eat us, which is an endearing quality.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qIBHStUc0

You sure about that?

[left that other site]

LOL...a six-year-old student of mine who has a big dog told me yesterday that she wants a HORSE for Christmas. Although there are horses in my community, her home is not on a lot appropriate for horses. So I said to her...”When you walk Bella, do you pick up her poops like you are supposed to?”

“Eyew” she said “Yes!”

“Well”, I said, “If you have a horse, you have to go to his stable every night with boots and a shovel, ‘cuz their poops are YUGE!”

From the expression on her face, I think I just did Santa a big favor. He OWES me!

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yum! :)

[oldasrocks]

Does that mean the 4 large hogs I put in the garden will ensure LARGER tomatoes next year?

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I can cook like a master chef. Takes a tad bit of research, but ladies love it. I even do my own clean up. Won't clean toilets and we are a two mower family. Heck I even make pasta from scratch. You would swoon over my poached olive oil dill and scallion salmon done suis vide so I can pay attention to the lady and not be slaving in the kitchen. Yeah, I am a catch. (BTW, add the words chef john to any google recipe search you do. He is corny, but every time I follow his steps exactly it turns out perfect.)

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Wow!

Nice termite mound! (No trees nearby, so they have been busy!)

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

“Plus, they won’t hunt and eat us, which is an endearing quality.”

Very much So! I know that I could not win a footrace with a velocrapter.

Were would we be without Bees and Worms!

While its sad to think that saber tooth tigers are extinct, it would be sadder to be eaten by one. My thanks go out to nameless generations of aboriginal hunters!

[Trumpet 1]

I have heard that a pasture is healthiest when there are lots of vegetarian animals grazing and pooping on the land. The poop and urine are perfect for soil enrichment. Vegetarian animals, not dogs or humans.

[JDoutrider]

Welcome back!!!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

According to some ‘garden experts’ peeing on your garden, or on your landscape trees and shrubs is the BEST thing you can do. (Pure Nitrogen, Baby!)

I’m not going THAT far; my Mule makes loads of lovely compost for me. :)

[Redcitizen]

the worms were bigger back then.

[Paul R.]

they won’t hunt and eat us

Except for... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj7R_2WWdKs

[blam]

On another note:

For thousands of years earthworms were the earth movers in he US south. They turned the soil more than any other creature...until now. The invasive Red Fire Ant that entered the US at the port of Mobile in the 1930's are everywhere now and doing the majority of earth moving.

[higgmeister]

Great Caesar’s ghost! Idiots with a doctorate had to do research to determine that dung is fertilizer. Dear Scotty, we implore you! Please beam us up!

[Kartographer]

WOW! You are right it is just like fertilizer! Who would have thought it possible?

[TexasRepublic]

Some of these ideas are a load of fertilizer, but they won’t help the plants.

[cpdiii]

The CO2 levels at the time of the dinosaurs was 5 times greater than today. CO2 is plant food. Plants were abundant and lush. Plant eating dinosaurs ate them and meat eating dinosaurs ate the plant eaters and as a result a lot of dinosaur crap was abundant.

I did not even need a federal grant to figure this out.

[null and void]

According to the article, you’re full of it...