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Recent Examples of coprolite
For the herbivores, however, especially in long-neck sauropods, their coprolites contained lots of tree ferns and charcoal.
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
Since 2015, Frandsen has held the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of coprolites.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
The coprolites contained bits of fish, insects, plants and other animals.
—Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
For example, the team found that the contents of coprolites from the first large herbivorous dinosaurs, the sauropodomorphs, contained large quantities of tree ferns but also many other types of plants and charcoal.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
Since 2015, Frandsen has held the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of coprolites.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
The coprolites contained bits of fish, insects, plants and other animals.
—Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
For example, the team found that the contents of coprolites from the first large herbivorous dinosaurs, the sauropodomorphs, contained large quantities of tree ferns but also many other types of plants and charcoal.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coprolite
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With antivenom hard to find in rural areas, some snakebite victims pay traditional healers with a chicken or a small goat to apply herbs, bones and even dung.Brian Otieno, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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In turn, their dung may have fertilized the growth of certain types of algae in the lake and thereby altered the local ecosystem.Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
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Her mother didn't want Dutt to be raised with the stigma of being known as a Dalit of the Bhangi sub-caste, whose people were long compelled to remove excrement from latrine pits.Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
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The poop was exhaustively analyzed by a research team of more than a dozen scientists using advanced techniques, and even a synchrotron particle accelerator, to probe each piece of excrement down to the molecular level.Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
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Mount Everest climbers now have to take their poop away with them, as human excrement has become a big problem on the world’s highest peak.CNN, The Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2024
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Related article Fossilized poop reveals secrets of how dinosaurs came to dominate Earth Gorgonopsians do share some traits with their mammal cousins.Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
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The script was based on the 1979 French play and subsequent 1982 film Le père Noël est une ordure (Santa Claus Is a Stinker).Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
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On the face of it, packing the ordure of millions into open-air mounds is a terrible approach to a more livable planet, particularly in a part of the world where scavengers don’t comb through them for every salable scrap.Curbed, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
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The count begins in November with ground crews setting up game cameras, tracking footprints and scat and setting traps to get a preliminary count of the wild population.Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 29 Jan. 2024
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Study of wolf scat in 2022 found that 86% of the samples contained cow.Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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The poop, or guano, of infected birds is teeming with viruses.CNN.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
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The guano in their colonies must smell pleasant, comforting, rather than the barnyard stink that hit my own nose.Blair Braverman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024
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That’s because cow manure doesn’t inherently contain methane.Kenny Torrella, Vox, 13 Jan. 2025
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And technologies may need to be combined–for example, feed additives and vaccines–as well as integrated with manure management and other ways to reduce climate emissions in livestock operations.Marianne Krasny, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Rocks also contribute to soil stability and protect delicate ecosystems.Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2025
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June • For camellia, citrus, gardenia, grape and other plants adapted to acidic soil: If leaves are yellowing (chlorotic) between green veins, plants may benefit from foliar or soil application of iron and zinc chelate and mulching.The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Coprolite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coprolite. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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