From the BBC News:
"Fossilised faeces found in a US cave may help solve the riddle of when and how humans came to the Americas.
The samples date back just over 14,000 years, before the time of the Clovis culture.
... 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."Read more here.
Who knew feces could fossilize? Anonymous Poo always assumed that such a thing would just decompose and eventually become oil. Well, AP is glad to have learned something new today.
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