So in the summer of 2021, Aase dropped off 5-gallon buckets at the quarries and asked diggers to toss in coprolites — the fossilized poop that is abundant at these sites. When the buckets filled, he ...

In the video above Heather Middleton, a local fossil hunter, explores the less glamorous side of the legendary collector's career: fossilised poo. By looking at the shape and size of coprolites, as ...

The coprolite fossil preserves the shape of a small parasitic isopod, now identified as a new genus and species named ...