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The scoop on fossil feces

Krzysztof Owocki
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2018 | Nr 1 (57) 2018 Consumption | 38-41
Keywords coprolites extinct animals
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How can we learn about the diet, health and parasites of animals which have long since gone extinct? One excellent, although perhaps slightly revolting way is to study pieces of fossilized excrement, known as coprolites.

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Krzysztof Owocki

What Powere the Dinosaurs?

Maria Barbacka Grzegorz Pacyna Jadwiga Ziaja Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2021 | No 1 (69) Energy Transtion | 98-102
Keywords dinosaurs Jurassic period coprolites paleontology
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Where did early dinosaurs get their energy from? Studying fossilized feces reveals certain secrets of herbivore evolution during the Jurassic period.
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Maria Barbacka
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Grzegorz Pacyna
3
Jadwiga Ziaja
1
Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki
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  1. PAS Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany in Kraków, Poland
  2. Botanical Department at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest, Hungary
  3. Institute of Botany, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
  4. Evolutionary Biology Centre in Uppsala, Sweden

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