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This fossilized fish’s skull is filled with feces

Enlarge / View of the fossilized skull of an extinct species of stargazer fish, showing preserved fecal pellets in the brain. (credit: Calvert Marine Museum) A fossilized cranium of an extinct species of stargazer fish was stuffed with tiny fecal pellets known as coprolites , according to a recent paper published in the journal Rivista […]

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The proof’s in the poop: Austrians have loved beer, blue cheese for 2, 700 years

Enlarge / A 2, 700-year-old piece of human excrement found at the Hallstatt salt mines, in which beans, millet, and barley are clearly visible (assuming one wishes to look that closely). Ancient Iron Age miners in what is now Austria were quite fond of beer and blue cheese, according to a new analysis, published in […]

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