Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Approximately 290 million years ago, a carnivorous dinosaur stomping around present-day Germany had a tummy ache. The Paleozoic predator eventually vomited up its stomach contents, and then hopefully continued to live its best dino life. Unlike most ancient regurgitated meals, this particular mixture of half-eaten prey and digestive bacteria successfully fossilized into what's known as a regurgitalite. In 2021, paleontologists discovered the extremely rare find while working in the famous Bromacker Permian dig site, about 155 miles southwest of Berlin.

Archaeologists have applied the principals of AI to distinguish between ancient human and dog poo, cleaning up a storm of scientific confusion over the matter. Looking deep into the future, in October 2019 Elon Musk posted a tweet using Starlink, a satellite constellation of thousands of orbiting mirrors constructed by his American company SpaceX, to provide satellite Internet access everywhere in the world. What's more, Amazon continue to apply advanced AI programs to predict what you and I might buy next; but looking backwards in time, archaeologists have now use artificial intelligence to distinguish whether a sample of ancient poo has human or canine origins. In a New Scientist article, Maxime Borry of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany discusses his new paper, which says ancient poo, or " coprolites", provides a valuable source of information about the identity, diet, and health of people who lived thousands of years ago. But the researcher explained that dogs lived alongside ancient hunters and canine feces are also commonly found at archaeological sites, "It is challenging to tell them apart," said Dr. Borry.

Dog faeces can still be troublesome thousands of years after being dumped. Archaeologists can end up in deep doodoo if they mistake it for human faeces. But now an artificial intelligence system has been developed to discern the two. Ancient faeces, or coprolites, can be a valuable source of information about the identity, diet and health of people who lived thousands of years ago. But dog faeces, which are a similar size and shape, are also common at many archaeological sites.

The largest dinosaurs that roamed the Earth before a mass extinction event caused by an asteroid strike wiped them out (and 75 percent of all life on the planet at the time) were all herbivores, that is, they were vegetarians. But that well-established fact is being challenged by a new finding: at least some of the largest herbivore dinosaurs also ate crustaceans, or shelled animals. Ancestors of modern-day crustaceans -- which have hard exoskeletons, such as crabs, lobsters, shrimp and crayfish -- were rich sources of proteins and calcium, and ingesting them could have been linked to dinosaurs' reproductive activities, according to researchers who made the discovery in Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. "From what we know about dinosaurs, this was a totally unexpected behavior. It was such a surprising discovery we wondered what the motivation could have been," Karen Chin, curator of paleontology at the Museum of Natural History in the University of Colorado, Boulder, said in a statement Thursday.

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