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Recent Examples of coprolite
As previously reported, coprolites aren't quite the same as paleofeces, which retain a lot of organic components that can be reconstituted and analyzed for chemical properties.
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Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2024
The coprolites contained the remains of fish, insects and plants, and sometimes other prey animals.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
Certain foodstuffs in the coprolites were surprisingly undigested.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
This single piece of very old poop would later turn into a very large collection of coprolites.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
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Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2024
The coprolites contained the remains of fish, insects and plants, and sometimes other prey animals.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
Certain foodstuffs in the coprolites were surprisingly undigested.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
This single piece of very old poop would later turn into a very large collection of coprolites.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coprolite
Noun
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And like the wildebeest, bison dung packs a nutritional punch when deposited across the landscape.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
29 Aug. 2025
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Decades before Colorado’s best singers, dancers and actors graced the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in downtown Denver, workers pushed brooms across the stage to clean up elephant dung, rodeo sawdust, and blood spatters from boxing matches.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Evidence of damage includes chewed, cut or missing leaves; yellowing or brown leaves; white webbing and green-black excrement on or around the plant, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture.—
Chad Murphy,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
2 Oct. 2025
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Dark spots about the size of an asterisk which are bed bug excrement and may bleed on fabric like a marker.—
Katie Nixon,
Nashville Tennessean,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And then the tide was coming in and the poop's, like, hitting me in the chest.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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Burning Man poop will help gardens grow elsewhere.—
Dennis Hinkamp,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Normies, apparently, refers to everyone who is not a bat-scat left-wing lunatic.—
Nolan Finley,
Twin Cities,
11 Sep. 2025
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On a recent trip, a scat deposit near the picnic table gave evidence of a nocturnal visitor.—
Don Sproul,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
10 Sep. 2025
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According to the study, the guano’s byproducts accelerated the formation of clouds by 10,000 times.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2025
Noun
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Refill it with native soil and some compost (and even some aged manure) prior to planting.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Oct. 2025
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It is released by wastewater treatment facilities, meat processing facilities, petroleum refining, manufacturing of asphalt and roofing material, and places where large quantities of manure are stored.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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On the other hand, overly wet soil can also impact flowering.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
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Gravel, clay, and sandy soils react very differently under sudden energy input, and the presence of water and air further alters behaviour.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Coprolite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coprolite. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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