This word means: Coprolite | Explained News, The Indian Express

This word means: Coprolite | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Explained Desk |New Delhi |Updated: August 29, 2019 7:41:15 am

This word means: Coprolite

Coprolites are fossilised faeces belonging to animals that lived millions of years ago.

A team of scientists from Argentina’s National Council of Scientific and Technical Research studied a prehisoric puma’s coprolite taken from a rock-shelter in Catamarca province.

SCIENTISTS HAVE found the oldest parasite DNA ever recorded. The discovery was made in the “coprolite” of a prehistoric puma in Argentina. Coprolites are fossilised faeces belonging to animals that lived millions of years ago.