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Getting the Dirt On Ancient Life With Coprolites
the_newsbeagle writes "Paleoscatologist Karen Chin knows you can learn a lot about ancient ecosystems by studying coprolites — fossilized feces. She has studied dino droppings from herbivores, and identified the types of plants those dinosaurs ate. She has identified T. rex turds, and found evidence that prehistoric dung beetles made use of those king-sized dino patties. This profile of Chin goes through her greatest hits, then focuses on her latest work, which sheds light on the reemergence of life after the K-Pg extinction event that brought down the dinosaurs... but left some surprising creatures unscathed."
I came across a resurrected page from the now defunct geocities - http://www.reocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/8152/plight.html - an article from 1997
There were (at that time) two brothers - Steve and Chris Brusatte - who were so interested in the field of Paleontology that they poured over 70 books just to satisfy their curiousity
That articles was dated 1997, some 16 years ago, and I hope that the brothers do grow up to be paleontologists, as what they had wanted to be