Who Dung It? (Kids, an online coprolite game!)
Can you match the poop with the poopetrator? See if you can match a coprolite with the ancient animal that is most likely to have created it.
From the BBC


What interesting earrings. Where'd you get them?
Looking for coprolite jewellery for someone special?
Dinopoop
Brushybasin

Jurassic Poop works brilliantly. First there's the potty angle....backed up with sound science and careful descriptions...Any young reader...will love Jurassic Poop.
Starred Review, Quill and Quire, October, 2006

Here's a combination that can't miss: dinosaurs and potty humour. What more could a kid ask for? Jurassic Poop is an engaging science book that plumbs the depths of what can be learned from prehistoric poo.
Edmonton Journal, July 2006

**** Jacob Berkowitz is a science writer who clearly knows how to grab a kid's attention. Highly recommended.
Manitoba Library Association, October, 2006

With wit as well as intellectual rigor, the book explains how to find and identify fossilized excrement...The visual and linguistic flights of fancy in this book are captivating...
Newsday, U.S.A, September, 2006

The gross out factor is only part of the appeal in this hilarious, fun-filled, informative, and only occasionally smelly introduction to fossil feces.
Cincinnatti Public Library Review, October, 2006

This book was very gross and disgusting...the boys at our school will LOVE it! I really thought this was a great book, and not just for boys. It had a lot of great information and interesting facts. While teaching funny and gross facts, it also teaches a lot of neat things about science. I thought the illustrations and the layout of the the book (not to mention content) made it funny and easy to read. Excellent book! Highly recommended for purchase.
A teacher's review for her school board, September, 2006

It's full of it!

The Poopcase is a carefully converted briefcase that now holds more than a dozen of the most amazing treasures of the past — coprolites, or fossil poop.

The Poopcase presentation is a 20-minute tour-de-fossil feces that's educational and fun. It's full of surprises, and the occasional fart joke. There's no better way to bring the past to life!

The Poopcase contains real coprolites from seven different types of prehistoric animals, including dinosaurs, mausasuars (ancient marine reptiles) sharks and crocodiles. These fossils range in age from about 25-million years old to more than 140 million years old. It's a journey into the past told in fossilized curly-cues, mounds and nuggets.

The presentation is a unique approach to one of kids' favourite topics — paleontology, the search for ancient life. The Poopcase presentation covers such topics as:

• The origin of fossil feces (How are fossils formed? What's a "trace" fossil?)


• How to spot poop impostors (What's the difference between a rock and a fossil?)


• How to ID the poopetrator (Is it a carnivore or herbivore's poop?)


• Telling time with ancient turds (How do scientists determine a fossil's age?)

The Poopcase is ideal for small group (less than 25 people) presentations in schools, bookstores and libraries.

The "Number Two": Coprolite Slide Show and Classroom Activities

Hey teachers, want more on coprolites? For larger school groups, or a longer session, the "Number Two"® includes a half-hour slide show that takes you behind-the-scenes with some of the world's greatest coprolites and coprolite hunters. There are also hands-on classroom activities. Makes for a great half-day of fossil poop discovery and learning that students won't soon forget.

World's Biggest
It's Canadian! The world's biggest carnivore coprolite is a tyrannosaurid dropping found near Onefour, Alberta. It's two-feet (64 cm) long and 6.5 inches (17 cm) wide - and full of crushed bone. Its final resting place is the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta.

Deepest Pile
The Ice Age mammoths and ground sloths that took shelter in southern Chile's Mylodon Cave left quite a mess. Their droppings form a three storey tall mound of dried doo-doo.

Most Beautiful
Say it with agatized coprolite! These permineralized (turned-to-rock) coprolites have beautiful streaks and swirls of red, white, yellow and blue. They're cut and tumbled to make distinctive gem stones for jewellery.

Oldest
The oldest coprolites are about 1.9 billion (that's 1900 million!) years old. The poop is from tiny marine creatures similar to modern copepods. What's amazing is that this poop is the earliest evidence of any kind of the first multicellular creatures on Earth.

Biggest Human Haul
Add another one to Texas' "big" list. More than 1000 human coprolites have been collected from Hinds Cave in the Chihuahuan desert in southwest Texas. These turds were deposited by ancient Americans over the course of about 8000 years. Most of the specimens are about 95-per cent fibre. That's about 15 times the amount of fibre the average American eats today.

Coldest Coprolites
Huge patches of frozen ancient cariboo poo have been discovered in mountainous areas of the Yukon and Alaska. The caribou pellets collected over millennia as caribou used year-round mountain snow patches as a retreat from biting insects. One of these snow and scat patches is as long as ten soccer fields end-to-end.

Best Source of Ancient DNA
It's not fossil bones or teeth. It's coprolites that are #1 source of ancient DNA. This was discovered by McMaster University scientist Hendrik Poinar. He's the son of George Poinar, the ancient insect expert whose research inspired the book Jurassic Park, in which scientists get dinosaur DNA from a Mesozoic mosquito preserved in amber.

Privy Gold
Archaeologists love outhouses. They're one of the best places to find intact artifacts (soft landing). And people threw things (bottles and bodies) into outhouses they didn't want found.

World's First Artificial Fertilizer
Coprolites helped launch the modern era of agriculture. They were among the first phosphate-rich rocks ground up to make fertilizer. The town of Bassingbourn in Britain has a coprolite statue to commemorate this fact.

Left by an animal long ago, this durable doo-doo survived the long journey through the ages. It started out stinky, but now it's frozen, dried or turned to rock. To a scientist, it's anything but gross — it's a priceless artifact that can help piece together the puzzle of ancient life.

Funny and informative, Jurassic Poop, is flush with amazing facts, stories and activities. Learn how to spot ancient poop impostors. Meet dung detectives getting to the bottom of history's hind-end mysteries. Find out how poop gets preserved and discover what it can tell us about dinosaurs, humans and many other animals from long ago. So hold your nose and take a journey back in time to see what tales ancient poop has to tell.