Geologists have discovered fossilized worm crap that's 500 million years old. Lund University scientists Mats Eriksson and Fredrik Terfelt uncovered the tiny piles of shit in a rock face near Malmo in southern Sweden. From the Associated Press:
Eriksson told the newspaper they examined the level of phosphorus of the samples and that "we realized pretty soon that it could not be anything other than coprolites, in other words fossilized dung…"
…They are working on an article about the find that will be published in an international magazine shortly.
"It is inevitable to joke about this, so we gave it the title 'Anomalous faces and ancient feces,'" Eriksson said.
Link (Thanks, David "Swapdrive" Steinberg!)
