Fossilized Poop is Rare, Fossilized Poop Inside a Fossilized Dinosaur is Even Rarer

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Paleontologists get really excited when they find poop — or at least, fossilized feces, called coprolites. They are not alone in the research world in this regard. Finding coprolites still within the animal that created it is rare indeed, but that may be exactly what a newly discovered specimen of Rhamphorhynchus, a winged reptile, contains.

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