Feces, ancient

The study of coprolites, particularly of their composition, throws light on the paleodiets (the feeding behavior) of ancient animals as well as humans and on the diseases that affected them. Coprolites composed only of plant material, for example, are indicative of a herbivorous diet bone remains in the feces denote carnivorous behavior, while remains of both plant and... 

Throughout human history, people have struggled to understand the nature of earthquakes and, as a result, have feced the challenges of preparing for these seismic events. Some ancient civilizations attributed earthquakes to giant snakes, turtles, and other creatures living and moving beneath the earth s surface. In the fourth century b.C.e., Aristotle was the first to speculate that earthquakes were not caused by... 

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