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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
And like the wildebeest, bison dung packs a nutritional punch when deposited across the landscape.
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Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
29 Aug. 2025
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.
Deputies who responded to the scene said the home was covered in trash and smelled of human excrement.
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Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
Human excrement can contain a wide range of parasites, bacteria, and viruses that can contaminate bodies of water, causing harm not only to humans but also to flora and fauna.
Six months later, the internship — some of which bore all the glamour of scrubbing bird poop and bucketing hundreds of pounds of fish as dolphin food — developed into a full-time gig as a trainer.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Sep. 2025
Clearing out the poop from the animals’ enclosures is a significant part of the zoo’s daily energy usage.
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Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Sep. 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.
According to the study, the guano’s byproducts accelerated the formation of clouds by 10,000 times.
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Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2025
The team is also working on restoring the habitat across the island, which was stripped of all its vegetation during its time as an erstwhile guano mining spot.
How that ratio of truth to horse manure will manifest in the shenanigans of season two is anyone’s guess.
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Alex Ritman,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
Regulation possible moving forward While horseback riding companies and scientists may not agree on how harmful horse manure is, both sides see a possibility for compromise on regulation.
Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire.
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Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
Israel has been engaged in a war with Gaza since a deadly 2023 terrorist attack on Israeli soil, which has seen ballistic missiles and rockets fired at the country.
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