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Fossil feces of dinosaurs

While museums put dinosaur bones on display, George Frandsen went further and began collecting... fossilized feces. The collection includes more than 5,000 samples of coprolite.

Perhaps the main question is, how did George Frandsen get hooked on such an extraordinary hobby? The collector himself says that, as a young freshman, he visited a fossil store in Utah and found a particularly impressive specimen.

After the purchase, Frandsen had a strange interest in coprolites, so the man began collecting them. Among the samples there are tiny peas and giant "tortillas" weighing up to 2 kg! Today, coprolites are important to scientists because they provide important clues about what fossil reptiles ate when they roamed the earth. As a well-known collector, Frandsen even lent his collection to the South Florida Museum. The collector is also the owner of the Poozeum website, which has nothing but... well, you get it.