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The size and shape of coprolites can also yield useful insights.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coprolite
Noun
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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.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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Living in the wood economy means relying on wood, dung, and other basic bioenergy.—
Ted Nordhaus,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Aug. 2016
Noun
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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.—
Lauren Vuong,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
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Researchers fed the fish, and their excrement provided nutrients to the plants.—
Troy Aidan Sambajon,
The Christian Science Monitor,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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And no one can assure that their poop is safe to eat.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Another included several bags for picking up the poop.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
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Blige also connected jazz (scat singing, riffing on a phrase, improvising wordless lines), gospel (testifying akin to a preacher delivering a sermon) and hip hop traditions.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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Despite recent concerns about an increase in cat consumption, the scientists found feline remnants in only about 4.5 percent of the scat samples.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Per Live Science, the case highlights the importance of raising awareness of the danger of using bat guano as a fertilizer.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
17 Dec. 2024
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These tasks include milking, feeding and manure management.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Only use manure from livestock and to not add pet waste or human manure to standard composting systems.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Apr. 2025
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Russia and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have launched intelligence missions right here on U.S. soil as the CCP has instigated an economic chokehold on South American countries through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and corruption.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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For now, the researchers have left the ship in situ, partially covering it with original soil and squeezing wet sponges onto it to preserve moisture.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Coprolite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coprolite. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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