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From huge piles of million-year-old dinosaur dung to perfectly-preserved woolly mammoths, from gargantuan animal guts to nature-made mummies, DINO POOP AND OTHER REMARKABLE REMAINS OF THE ANCIENT PAST explores some of the strangest stuff on earth and the amazing ways we are able to study it today. This is a lively and fun guide to the places we find ancient remains like peat bogs, tar pits, amber mines, frozen tundra, and yes, even in fossilized vomit! In addition to fascinating facts, quizzes, timelines, and maps, you even get your very own piece of coprolite (a.k.a. "dino poop"!).Hammerslough, Jane is the author of 'Dino Poop ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780439852784 and ISBN 0439852781.
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