nelms Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191607,00.html Geologists Find 500-Million-Year-Old Feces Thursday , April 13, 2006 STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Swedish geologists have found fossilized feces from a worm that lived some 500 million years ago, media reports said Wednesday. The tiny piles of feces were found embedded in rock-face near Malmo in southern Sweden by geologists Mats Eriksson and Fredrik Terfelt, the newspaper Sydsvenskan reported. Eriksson told the newspaper they examined the level of phosphorus of the samples and that "we realized pretty soon that it could not be anything other than coprolites — in other words, fossilized dung." Terfelt described the find as "unique." "Cambrian scientists will certainly find them very interesting," Terfelt said. The two are researching geology at Lund University in southern Sweden, and said they are working on an article about the find that will be published in an international magazine shortly. "It is inevitable to joke about this, so we gave it the title 'Anomalous faces and ancient feces,'" Eriksson said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wskin44 Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Nelms, did you feel some kind of special connection with this story? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD0506 Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 What a relief, I was expecting another LA thread! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 in other news... my 2 year old ate dirt that was/is believed to be 1 billion years old.... that possibly was fish poo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gchwood Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Woooo hooooo worm crap, now that is a quality conversation piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeorama Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Damn, that's some old $hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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