World's Longest Dinosaur Poo Expected To Catch $10,000 Dollars At Auction House
The world’s longest dinosaur dung is set to go up for auction next week.
The fossilised excrement dates back to the Oliogocene and Minocene Epochs, which makes it anywhere from 5.3 to 33.9 million years old.
Found in Lewis County, Washington State the giant dung is expected to reach £4,700 to £5,800 ($8,000 to $10,000) when it goes under the hammer on 22 July
The longest dinosaur dung on Earth (shown) is going up for auction in Los Angeles. It measures 40 inches (one metre) in length and has a pale brown-yellow colour. Auctioneer I.M. Chait expects it to reach up to £5,800 ($10,000) when it goes under the hammer on 22 July
WHERE IS ALL THE DINOSAUR POO?
The lack of vast amounts of fossilised dinosaur feces has baffled scientists for years.
However, Slovakian researchers believe the answer lies in the diet of cockroaches, which might have dined on dinosaur waste millions of years ago.
Using cutting-edge imaging methods, the scientists discovered particles of wood inside an ancient cockroach’s gut, which they think came from dinosaur feces.
Researchers from the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Slovakia said that dinosaurs certainly must have produced a lot of feces, and yet fossils of the waste are not very widely discovered.
‘Although appearing trivial, cockroaches, one of the dominant insect orders during the Mesozoic, were never examined as representing top candidates for partial processors of dinosaur dung,’ they wrote in their study.
The dung is what is known as coprolite, fossilised feces that can provide information about an animal’s diet rather than just its appearance.
It is described by Beverly Hills auctioneers I.M. Chait as an ‘eye-watering 40 inches [one metre] in length’.
However, research has failed to reveal what dinosaur the excrement originated from.
‘This truly spectacular specimen is possibly the longest example of coprolite – fossilised dinosaur feces – ever to be offered at auction,’ said Josh Chait, spokesman for the auctioneer.
‘It boasts a wonderfully even, pale brown-yellow colouring and terrifically detailed texture to the heavily botryoidal [globular] surface across the whole of its immense length.
‘The passer of this remarkable object is unknown, but it is nonetheless a highly evocative specimen of unprecedented size.’
He continued that the specimen was ‘presented in four sections, each with a heavy black marble custom base, an eye-watering 40 inches [one metre] in length overall.’
Also for sale are a selection of five stool-shaped specimens thought to have come from a Miocene turtle, 23.03 to 5.332 million years ago, estimated to sell for £2,300 to £3,500 ($4,000 to 6,000).
‘Although it is often impossible to tell which species produced these fascinating petrified feces, it is supposed that the fine examples found in a small area of Washington State are from a Miocene turtle,’ said Mr Chait.
‘It is also suggested that rather than being coprolites, they are in fact cololites, internal casts of the intestine.’
Also for sale are a selection of five stool-shaped specimens thought to have come from a Miocene turtle, 23.03 to 5.332 million years old, estimated to sell for £2,300 to £3,500 ($4,000 to 6,000). Pictured is the collection of the cololites (fossilised intestinal cast) thought to be from the turtle’s intestine.
Source: DAILYMAIL
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If it’s from the Oliogocene or Minocene Epochs it can’t be from a dinosaur. The only poo here is the inaccurate headline to this article