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Recent Examples of coprolite
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coprolite
Noun
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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).—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
17 Oct. 2025
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Or that tossed off, scrapped, relegated to the dung heap of failed work, the unconscious keeps turning and turning the deep images and obsessions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The president prefers posting AI slop videos of himself dumping excrement on city-dwellers than working for them.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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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.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Under that metal rack with rodent poop, there was standing water.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
27 Oct. 2025
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Advanced spectroscopy sensors and a validated machine-learning algorithm in the device scan your poop for indicators of gut health and hydration, and also look for blood in the toilet bowl that might otherwise be hard to spot.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Teig came upon piles of green scat, a telltale sign that an animal was close by.—
Devon O’Neil,
Outside,
15 Oct. 2025
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Normies, apparently, refers to everyone who is not a bat-scat left-wing lunatic.—
Nolan Finley,
Twin Cities,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If excluding the bats is a DIY job, clean up the roosting area afterwards so that guano doesn’t attract other pests such as cockroaches and flies.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
21 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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It can also be spread indirectly through manure, equipment, vehicles, egg flats, crates, clothing and shoes, water and, potentially, feed.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
17 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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On the last day of the conference, a handful created the African Descendants Nationalist Independence Partition Party, with the express aim of founding a separate nation on American soil.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Make sure to thoroughly water roses before the ground freezes to ensure the roots have moist soil.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Coprolite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coprolite. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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