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Recent Examples of coproliteAs 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 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 See All Example Sentences for coprolite
Rodents left dung pieces in the bun storage area (over 25); dry storage shelves (over 10); the front counter cabinet where the soda machine equipment is (over 10); and behind the air conditioning unit on the second floor (over 20).
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
17 Oct. 2025
Or that tossed off, scrapped, relegated to the dung heap of failed work, the unconscious keeps turning and turning the deep images and obsessions.
Sheep’s wool is also highly damaging to vital river systems, as excrement from the UK’s 31 million sheep and chemical sheep dips run into waterways, causing suffocating eutrophication.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Oct. 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.
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.
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Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
10 Sep. 2025
Bat droppings: Also known as guano, these small, dark pellets can be found in windowsills, porches, or the attic.
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Kathy Barnes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Aug. 2025
It can also be spread indirectly through manure, equipment, vehicles, egg flats, crates, clothing and shoes, water and, potentially, feed.
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Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
17 Oct. 2025
One day, his dad, Brian (Palin), shares an old recipe involving rainwater, horse manure and alchemy to create Homunculi – magical prophesying spirits that can predict the future.
Derby County had done the same 24 hours earlier, leaving Norwich, Blackburn Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday as the remaining clubs yet to triumph on home soil.
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Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
The primary sources of heavy metal contamination in the cow’s environment, said Akinleye, are feed, water and soil.
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