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Recent Examples of coproliteThe size and shape of coprolites can also yield useful insights.—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 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.—Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2024 For the herbivores, however, especially in long-neck sauropods, their coprolites contained lots of tree ferns and charcoal.—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for coprolite
The dung heap is being dismantled by a scrum of hermit crabs.
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Kevin Gepford,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Apr. 2025
Ancient Egyptians also revered dung beetles because the rolling of the dung balls reminded them of the sun god rolling the sun across the sky, according to the Israel Museum.
My father was living alone in that dark, filthy room like an old animal wallowing in its own excrement.
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Lee Chang-dong,
The New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2024
The rich sat on deck while the poor were squeezed in the hold below, with no place to relieve themselves, so excrement, vomit, and other wastes flowed down into the lower areas.
Relieve constipation: Certain magnesium and phosphorus supplements can help relieve constipation by bringing water to your intestines and softening stool (poop).
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Kirstyn Hill, PharmD, MPH,
Health,
22 Apr. 2025
Agri-Mark, the parent company of Cabot Creamery, has voluntarily recalled about 1,700 pounds of butter due to elevated levels of coliform bacteria, a type associated with fecal (poop) contamination, according to an enforcement report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
10 Apr. 2025
The script was based on the 1979 French play and subsequent 1982 film Le père Noël est une ordure (Santa Claus Is a Stinker).
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Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
21 Dec. 2024
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.
The team started by looking for the tell-tale signs of snow leopards–footprints, scat, and scratch marks.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
7 May 2025
About 72 percent of the wolf scat samples tested in 2022 and 2023 contained cattle DNA, while hair cortisol levels were elevated in cattle that resided in areas containing in wolves — a sign that the scientists attributed to increases in stress.
Although primarily related to bird guano and agriculture rather than bat guano and gunpowder, the Guano Islands Act highlighted just how strategically important guano had become in American history.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
Per Live Science, the case highlights the importance of raising awareness of the danger of using bat guano as a fertilizer.
Homeowners in the northwestern section of Somers are planning a large turnout at a hearing Tuesday night on whether an Ellington dairy should be allowed to dump large quantities of cow manure into a holding area near their houses.
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Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
13 May 2025
Cooper advises enriching the soil with organic matter, like compost or aged manure, to get the right balance of nutrients, including nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.
Brazil were awarded the hosting rights for World Cup 1950 and were therefore considered favourites to win it on home soil, just as Uruguay and Italy had done in 1930 and 1934 respectively.
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Michael Cox,
New York Times,
11 May 2025
The news release said the researchers found the larvae were far more prevalent in places where soil was extremely dry and a lot of organic matter was present.
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