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FOR KIDS: Dino-sized poop

Tyrannosaurus rex at the University of California Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley by Dallas Krentzel
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Piercing a buried polar lake: Analysts in Antarctica drilled with a half-mile of ice to reach water that hasn't had contact with the setting for hundreds of years. Ewww: Scientists use poop from living pets to estimate the size of dung dropped by T. rex and various other dinos

To estimate the size of dinosaur feces-- consisting of those from T. rex ( revealed )-- scientists gauged poop from numerous living creatures. Wikimedia Commons/J. M. Luijt

This could seem like a disgusting question. And because dinosaurs perished out even more than 65 million years ago, lots of people may think the question isn't important. However scientists are researching fossil dung to find out a great deal about ancient creatures and where they lived.

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