Beware of food beyond its use by date
Posted: July 31, 2012 Filed under: Dung Beetles | Tags: cartoon, comic, coprolite, dinosaur, dung beetle, funny, humor, humour, outside the box Leave a comment
A coprolite is fossilised feces, with its derivation coming from the Greek words kopros (dung) and lithos (stone). For paleontologists they are significant, in that these trace fossils provide insight into the deceased owner’s diet.
I wonder how many budding palaeontologists sign up knowing that it’s not just bones that they will be playing with?
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