@paelnever @icg937 @Tutanota As the old saying goes, nobody ever got fired for buying #Microsoft.
Pipeline release! nf-core/coproid v2.0.1 - v2.0.1 - Greedy Gobbler!
Coprolite host Identification pipeline
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/coproid/releases/tag/2.0.1
#adna #ancientdna #coprolite #microbiome #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
Google AI assures me* that "microslop coprolite" is a recent viral internet joke, and with your help, we can retcon that into reality
* with hallucitations that in no way support the claim
Pipeline release! nf-core/coproid v2.0.0 - DSL2 conversion!
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/coproid/releases/tag/2.0.0
#adna #ancientdna #coprolite #microbiome #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
Scatological humor is always a sure-fire way to get a child audience’s attention, which means #coprolites are always amusing fossils to bring up in paleo outreach. To that end, may I recommend “The Clues are in the Poo”, coauthored by Jane Kurtz and #coprolite queen Karen Chin!
It’s a light, entertaining book that not only educates about these amusing fossils, but also acts as an autobiographical account of Karen’s career as well.
https://dinodadreviews.com/2024/04/17/the-clues-are-in-the-poo/
The Cropwell Bishop plesiosaur on display at the #NottNatHist Museum @GeorgeTheGorilla
It's from the earliest Jurassic of Cropwell Bishop in Nottinghamshire. I'm working on it with colleagues, it's probably a new species.
I put a fossil fish by its head and some coprolites by its bum to tell a simple story: food goes in, poo goes out!
#plesiosaurs #plesiosaur #FossilFriday #fossils #paleontology #WollatonHall #coprolite
Late #Cretaceous #coprolite from the Opole area (southern Poland) as evidence for a variable diet in shell-crushing #shark Ptychodus (Elasmobranchii: Ptychodontidae)
Background Coprolites, i.e., fossilized faeces, are an important source of knowledge on the diet and food processing mechanisms in the fossil record. Direct and indirect evidences for the dietary preferences of extinct sharks are rare in the fossil record. The first coprolite attributable to Ptychodus containing prey remains from the European Cretaceous is documented here. Methods A coprolite from the Late Cretaceous of Opole (southern Poland) was scanned using micro-computed tomography to show the arrangement of the inclusions. In addition, the cross-section was examined under the SEM/EDS to analyse the microstructure and chemical composition of the inclusions. Results Brachiopod shell fragments and foraminiferan shells are recognized and identified among the variously shaped inclusions detected through the performed analysis. Conclusions The extinct shell-crushing shark Ptychodus has been identified as the likely producer of the examined coprolite. The presence of brachiopod shell fragments indicates that at least some species of this durophagous predatory shark may have preyed on small benthic elements on the sea bottom.
Fossilized feces found to be infested with #parasites from more than 200 million years ago https://phys.org/news/2023-08-fossilized-feces-infested-parasites-million.html
First discovery of #parasite eggs in a vertebrate #coprolite of the Late #Triassic in Thailand https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287891
"The coprolite is cylindrical in shape and more than 7cm long. Based on its shape and contents, the researchers suggest it was likely produced by some species of #phytosaur, #crocodile-like #predators which are also known from this #fossil locality."
Fossilized feces preserve evidence of ancient parasites that infected an aquatic predator over 200 million years ago, according to a study published August 9, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Thanit Nonsrirach of Mahasarakham University, Thailand, and colleagues.
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