http://wordie.org/words/coprolite Comments for the word 'Coprolite' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/coprolite#comments My goodness. Ian Paisley now has a group of fossilised faeces caves named for him. Seems oddly appropriate. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:21:46 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/coprolite#comments http://wordie.org/words/coprolite#comments "'We found a little pit in the bottom of a cave,' related Dennis Jenkins from the University of Oregon, whose team excavated the Paisley Caves in 2002 and 2003.<br />'It was full of camel, horse and mountain sheep bones, and in there we found a human <a href="/words/coprolite">coprolite</a>.'<br />This and 13 other <a href="/words/coprolites">coprolites</a> - fossilised faeces - proved the star attraction, because they contained tiny quantities of human mitochondrial DNA - genetic material found outside the nuclei of cells which is passed down from each mother to her children."<br />- 'Faeces hint at first Americans', BBC website, 3 April 2008. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:20:02 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/coprolite#comments