The Arizona museum has approximately 8,000 pieces of poop, including a 65.7cm whopper thought to come from a Tyrannosaurus Rex. <\/p>
The are museums for everything<\/a>. The Idaho Potato Museum in the US, the Derwent Pencil Museum in England\u2019s Lake District <\/a>\u2013 and now the Poozeum<\/a>, home to the world\u2019s largest collection of\u00a0fossilised dinosaur<\/a> poop.<\/strong><\/p> You\u2019ll find George Frandsen’s newly opened museum in Williams, a small town in northern Arizona. The record-breaking compendium of 8,000 pieces of coprolite<\/a>, the scientific name for fossilised faeces, includes the largest carnivore coprolite ever found.<\/p> \u201cInitially, many people react with a \u2018yuck\u2019 face or laughter when they first hear about the Poozeum,\u201d Frandsen said in an interview with Guinness World Records<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p> \u201cHowever, after witnessing the collection, their reactions often shift to shock at the diverse and intriguing nature of coprolites.\u201d<\/p> \u201cGiven that most people have little to no experience with coprolites, it\u2019s enjoyable to introduce them to this fascinating world and share the wonders they hold.\u201d<\/p> The collection includes not only the world\u2019s largest collection of coprolite but also one of the biggest individual pieces ever found. A colossal 67.5 centimetres long and 15.7 centimetres wide, Frandsen thinks the giant specimen came from a Tyrannosaurus Rex<\/a>.<\/p> The Poozeum was originally created by Frandsen as an online resource in 2014. It proved so popular that a few years later the poop enthusiast quit his job, sold his house and moved 2,000 miles to Williams to fulfil his dream to open a permanent museum.\u00a0<\/p> \u201cThese peculiar prehistoric \u2018time capsules\u2019 offer direct insights into the diets, behaviours and environments of ancient creatures,\u201d said Frandsen.<\/p> The Poozeum is free\u00a0to visit and has a gift shop \u2013 so you can take a piece of fossilised poop home with you. \u201cIt’s instructive entertainment at its finest, and is suitable for visitors of all ages,\u201d says the website<\/a>.<\/p> More on dinosaurs:<\/strong><\/p> The Arizona museum has approximately 8,000 pieces of poop, including a 65.7cm whopper thought to come from a Tyrannosaurus Rex. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":38976,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/06\/dinosaur-poop-museum-opens-in-arizona.jpg",2119,1415,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/06\/dinosaur-poop-museum-opens-in-arizona-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/06\/dinosaur-poop-museum-opens-in-arizona-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/06\/dinosaur-poop-museum-opens-in-arizona-768x513.jpg",768,513,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/06\/dinosaur-poop-museum-opens-in-arizona-1024x684.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/06\/dinosaur-poop-museum-opens-in-arizona-1536x1026.jpg",1536,1026,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/06\/dinosaur-poop-museum-opens-in-arizona-2048x1368.jpg",2048,1368,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Arizona museum has approximately 8,000 pieces of poop, including a 65.7cm whopper thought to come from a Tyrannosaurus Rex.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/38975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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