intoxicated poop segment: part lxxx

as you know, the glaciers melting has unveiled a lot of life-changing, very important, mysteries of history-- things like the oldest dildo known to man. and most recently, a team of scientists have found new information regarding the woolly mammoth (prehistoric snuffaluffagus) and its eating habits.

more specifically, they've proven the beast enjoyed feasting on-- and i quote-- poo-snacks.

Or more accurately, a team led by Bas van Geel of the University of Amsterdam found fungus spores deep inside a piece of mammoth dung that can only grow on the outside of dung. Only way that can happen is if the mammoth eats the fungus, which means eating poo. Their work is in press in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.

This is the second time evidence has been found that mammoths enjoyed poo-snacks — "coprophagy" to scientists — the first was in 2006. In some ways it's even more important than the first discovery, though, because it means the initial finding wasn't a fluke: mammoths made a habit of eating their own excrement.

[more via msnbc]

it comforts me to know that adult scientists go through great troubles to unearth extinct poop, study it, and write reports how the poop has actually been pooped, eaten, and pooped again.

i wonder what their significant others say when they come home grinning, "i found the most amazing old piece of poop you could ever imagine!"

with any luck, the archeologists of the distant future will be digging through my petrified poop and determining that my favorite whiskey was jameson.

or perhaps i should use my poop-knowledge and interest in poop-history to just become a high-class scientist myself.

oh, the options.