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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow

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Speaker 1: your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. My name is

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Speaker 1: Julie Tuglas. Julie had your weekend go It was great.

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Speaker 1: It was great. I handled lots of pretend dinosaur poop.

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Speaker 1: Where did you do this? Um? This was at the

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Speaker 1: fern Bank Museum here in Atlanta, and they have an

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Speaker 1: exhibit called the Scoop on Poop and they had a

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Speaker 1: special little thing for kids. I mean, I think it

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Speaker 1: was for kids. I was totally hanging out doing it,

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Speaker 1: but um sing out of the way. Yeah. I was like, hey,

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Speaker 1: that's that's my Plato fake poop. Um. But they did this.

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Speaker 1: It was really great. My daughter loved it too. Um.

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Speaker 1: They rolled up just a bunch of different like uh, plants,

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Speaker 1: materials or bones or um both into different pieces of Plato.

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Speaker 1: And then you'd have to discover, you know, was it

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Speaker 1: a carnival or was Astonis wore an omnivore or nerbivore?

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Speaker 1: And kids love this. You're right, you know that they're

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Speaker 1: all crowding these tables because even if you just call

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Speaker 1: it pretend poop and it's squishy, they will pick it

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Speaker 1: up and and have at it. Kids love poop. It's

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Speaker 1: it's a known fact. And uh. And you can learn

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Speaker 1: a lot from an animal species. It's uh, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's pretty established fact. You can learn about an

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Speaker 1: animal's diet. You can learn about what kind of parasites

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Speaker 1: it might have had, if it had you know, worms

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Speaker 1: and stuff. I mean, if you've if you, if you

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Speaker 1: have a child, if you have a pet, you've probably

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Speaker 1: encountered a little of this um where you you get

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Speaker 1: to haven't get an intimant glance into what's going on

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Speaker 1: inside your animal based or inside your child, based on

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Speaker 1: what's coming out of said organism. Who is sometimes an animal? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's true. You will know if corn was for dinner,

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Speaker 1: You're like, whoa. You know, if you've changed your your

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Speaker 1: pet cat's food and then you go to scoop the

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Speaker 1: litter box, you can sometimes tell WHOA. There was a

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Speaker 1: shift and died here because the nature of the clumps

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Speaker 1: has changed. Yep. And that's what that's what we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about today, the nature of the clumps and the

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Speaker 1: merits of schatology here. Um. It's something called copper lights

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Speaker 1: actually copper lights, Yeah, which are basically stones that were

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Speaker 1: once poops. Yep, it's a scientific name for for fossilized

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Speaker 1: m escrement. And uh, pieces are droppings, however you want

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Speaker 1: to call it. And we're gon we're going big here.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about humans, we're talking about animals, wily mammoths. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we're not just talking about owl pellets. Yeah. So first

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna talk to just a little bit about fossilization,

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Speaker 1: just a little grounding here. Uh. Fossilization takes place in

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Speaker 1: various ways. There's freezing, there's compression, there's entrapment in amber,

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Speaker 1: you know, with like a little bugs that are trapped

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Speaker 1: in amber. And then there is um per mentalization, which

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Speaker 1: is the big one. This is the one that factors

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Speaker 1: into any kind of like dinosaur fossils that you see

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Speaker 1: in a museum. It's easy to fall into the trap

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Speaker 1: or yeah, or in some cases tissue, because certainly bones

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Speaker 1: will fossilize, but so little soft tissues. So can hair,

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Speaker 1: so can u feathers, and indeed, so can poop. So

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Speaker 1: what happens during fossilization specifically during per mineralization UM. What

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Speaker 1: we see is is a hardening of the minerals that

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Speaker 1: have entered the small pores and cavities of a dead organism.

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Speaker 1: UH and and to a large extent, what it takes

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Speaker 1: and then it is UH that the contents of that

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Speaker 1: don't depend solely on fossils for understanding what happened in

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Speaker 1: You know, some organisms we have loads of fossils off

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Speaker 1: bacteria really helped right in that process. Other situations, you know,

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Speaker 1: So you would want to find, for instance, your fecal

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Speaker 1: And that's just what happened in the most recent example

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Speaker 1: journal Science reported a discovery in an Oregon cave of

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Speaker 1: human DNA more than fourteen thousand years old, and the

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Speaker 1: copper lights. This was Paisley Caves, Paisley Caves in Oregon,

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Speaker 1: An analysis of the sample suggests that the cave dwellers

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Speaker 1: were omnivores who ate lots of roots and seeds and

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Speaker 1: You know, actually these these bits of fickle matter, uh,

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Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit more about that. But luckily

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Speaker 1: just poop absolutely everywhere. So they have these massive quantities

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Speaker 1: Tarantosaurus Rex sixty five million years old, UM, and these

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Speaker 1: All right, so we have to talk about mammoth poos,

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Speaker 1: We shouldn't take a break, and then we will come

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Speaker 1: back and discuss the leavings of the willing Mamma. All right,

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Speaker 1: you know, should we bring the wily mammoth back? And

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Speaker 1: all this. But uh, let's talk about resurrecting their poos. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: it turns out that that these guys on occasion would

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Speaker 1: and they found traces of willows, daisies, sorrel such as rushes,

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Speaker 1: But they also found this fungus Sporo miella, which is

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