Apparently, the way to get an article in Science is to conduct research on fossilized dinosaur shit. (Here, I consider it necessary to point out that Caltech's class of 2000 came very close to donating a sample of this stuff, called "coprolite", as its class gift. The class of 1998's very-quickly-aborted idea of a Predator statue for the Registrar's office was even better, although the class of '00 gets points for apparently coming very close to getting away with it. For a while, I thought it happened, but somebody in the know informed me it never quite worked out.)
Oh, and I am only facetiously making fun of the research article. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using poo to time-stamp things. I just don't want that job...
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Joe Kirschvinck every year would determine who had done the reading for the trip to mexico by asking, at the appropriate spot, who wanted to lick the coprolite.
Francis MacDonald, I believe, actually did.
In reality, coprolites are just rocks.
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