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My goodness. Ian Paisley now has a group of fossilised faeces caves named for him. Seems oddly appropriate.
"'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.
'It was full of camel, horse and mountain sheep bones, and in there we found a human coprolite.'
This and 13 other coprolites - 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."
- 'Faeces hint at first Americans', BBC website, 3 April 2008.