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Motherload!

By Graham Young | Published: December 6, 2010

If we think about it at all, most of us tend to consider dung (poop) as a substance to be gotten rid of, not something to be collected and treasured. And that is the case for at least 99.9% of it, but of course the situation is different when the dung is in fossilized form, and when it comes from giant, long-extinct creatures. Fossilized dinosaur dung, or coprolites, has been studied for…

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