RE: When crocodiles poop

["Stewart, Dwight" <Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com>]

Speaking of poo poo, my wife found several objects in a dry river bed in
Western Bexar county that MIGHT be dinosaur droppings.  Any input on who we
could send a sample too (at my expense) to identify these fossilized
samples?

Dwight
        -----Original Message-----
        From:   King, Norm [SMTP:nking.ucs@smtp.usi.edu]
        Sent:   Friday, January 22, 1999 8:21 AM
        To:     dinosaur@usc.edu
        Subject:        When crocodiles poop

        Believe it or not, I just looked up this word to see if it is a noun
or 
        verb, or both.  I mean, when they defecate, what do they produce--a
tight 
        little sausage-like thingy (I call coprolites "petrified turds" to
get a 
        few laughs in my dinos class, but I'm positive there must be a more 
        sophisticated term) or a dollop of a slurry that looks like whipped
cream 
        (in the barnyard, you might call it chickenwhip)?

        I just asked our resident herpetologist, and he just walked away
shaking 
        his head.  I think he's trying to avoid me more and more lately.

        
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