- [Dan] Look at the size of this thing.
He's touching the blade.
- We polished a turd!
- This may be our crappiest video we've ever done.
(suspenseful music)
Lincoln, it's time.
- Are we doing the poop?
- [Dan] It's poop time.
- Yes, poop!
(energetic music)
- That's right, we have actual poop, dinosaur poop!
This is fossilized dinosaur poop,
and this is helpful for certain scientists
when they want to see what the diet is
of certain types of dinosaurs.
When I got it off of Ebay, the title was massive poop!
- [Lincoln] Craprolite.
- [Dan] Or if you didn't know,
it's called coprolite, not craprolite.
Dinosaur fossil feces, poo, dung,
858 grams, giant,
all caps, 10 inch, 10-inch poop.
Am I being played right now?
Is this actually somebody in Washington's poop?
It's possible.
- Look how big that poop is though.
- It is, it's really long,
and it makes my hand turn a little bit orange.
I am not an expert on poop.
Well, I'm not an expert on dinosaur poop.
We're gonna go to our friend Rick from Rockpick Legend.
He's the one that did the meteorite with us.
He did the diamond ore with us,
and we're going to have him look at our poop.
Let us know if he likes our poop.
What can we learn from dinosaur poop?
What's inside of it?
Honestly, I got this one because
it looks more like human poop.
This may be our crappiest video we've ever done.
I'm curious, would this flush down a human toilet?
Hmm.
Hello?
Nobody's in here.
Okay, so we're in the bathroom.
Okay, look at the size of this thing
inside of a human toilet.
I don't know.
Let us know in the comments.
Do you think this is the size of normal human poo?
Have you ever seen a human poo this big before?
What has this video come to?
Let's go take this to Rick
and get his opinion about the poop.
I'm gonna label him as the poop expert today.
Coprolite is the official term,
and shout out to Stacy from StacyPlays.
She's the first one that originally told us about coprolite,
and that it's dinosaur poop.
(upbeat music)
This is our dinosaur poop.
We bought it off the internet.
It says that it was dinosaur poop, so that's all we know.
Here's our poop.
- Oh.
- Have you seen a poop like that before?
- Yes.
These are very indicative of the ones from Morocco.
- Moroccan poop.
Hey, dinosaurs seem like they're really big.
Why would this be so small?
- This could be from a juvenile.
It could be from something other than a dinosaur.
It could be from a very large lizard.
- How old do you think something like this is?
I mean, it feels like it's rock, it's really fossilized.
- Oh yeah, it's clearly, clearly it's fossilized.
They're probably in the neighborhood
of 35 to 65 million years old.
- Whoa.
- [Lincoln] That's a long time.
- Some of the ones we find in Utah,
I've seen them as big as Volkswagens, a Beetle.
They're much older.
They're 65 to 120 million years old.
- Dinosaur poop the size of a Volkswagen.
- Yeah.
- Can you do anything with this?
Like if we cut it and took it apart,
you think there's anything that we would see in there?
- It's common to find,
ones from Southwest United States
that have nuts and berries, teeth, bone, wood.
- They call it coprolite.
- Craprolite.
- Coprolite.
Lincoln calls it craprolite.
- This is a piece of one.
- [Lincoln] Whoa, that was cut.
- Yeah, this one's already been cut.
It shows you the insides, a different type than yours.
This one's from here in Utah.
This is another one from here in Utah.
- [Dan] Wow, that's actually their poop.
- It's so colorful.
Is it because it's fossilized that it makes those colors?
Is it just...
- So the minerals it fossilizes,
they replace the organic material,
that's what gives it its color.
It's not red because it ate something red
or blood or anything like that.
That stuff's all long gone.
This one from down by Hainesville, Utah.
- [Lincoln] That's a big one.
- And on the back here, this little hole there.
It looks like a plant fossil.
- [Dan] So that is a plant fossil.
It's in there or you pulled it out?
- [Rick] No, it's dissolved away and left a cavity.
Here's another one.
You can see the little structures there.
And those are plantlike fossils.
- [Dan] That's something that it ate and digested,
and then it came out.
- Exactly.
- We've learned a lot about dinosaur poop.
We even learned that this one
had little markings on it from when it plopped.
It was the technical term.
Do you think that you could just
probably break that rock open by yourself?
- Oh, yeah, like if I had like a surface like this,
I could just snap it.
- [Dan] What do you think the best method is?
Do you think that we should just break the thing
or should we go and--
- Oh, if you break it, then you have a rough surface,
and you don't know what's gonna,
you still don't know what you're seeing.
It's all rough and jagged.
Once you cut it, you have a very smooth surface.
Sometimes, you even have to pre-polish it
or even polish all the way down
in order to see what the structure looks like on the inside.
- We're gonna do that.
We're gonna cut it, and then we're gonna polish the turd.
That's what we're doing.
This is what YouTube is made for.
- Exactly.
- [Dan] So Zeke today is gonna be our cutting expert.
Look at these saws.
Look at how massive these are.
This is, is this oil or water?
- It's vegetable oil.
- And then this is the blade.
It's like not even sharpen if you touch it.
He's touching the blade.
It's not turned off.
Right there.
And his finger is still on.
His finger is still intact.
The question is which way do we cut it?
We're thinking if we could somehow get it long way.
Maybe all the way down and then we could just open it up
and see along the whole length of it.
He's clamping it tight.
It's not breaking.
- It snaps.
- [Dan] If that dinosaur poop
can survive for 35 million years.
- How long can our poop last?
- Well, technically.
(laughs)
At the University of Utah,
they study human feces that have been
fossilized out in the desert.
The paleontology department studies them.
- What?
- Lincoln's been wondering for the longest time.
It seems like every week, he's like Dad,
what should I be when I grow up?
I think we just found it.
(laughs)
- Poopologist.
- Don't ever let somebody tell you
you can't do something.
- I understand from professors
that when they reconstitute ones
that are 10,000 years old, they still stink.
- This is the last we'll see
of the fully intact dinosaur poop.
It's been about 25 minutes,
and we're gonna check on it right now.
We just turned the saw off.
We haven't opened it yet,
but they said from their expert ears,
that they think it may have broken.
So let's check it out.
(suspenseful music)
- [Lincoln] It's a log.
- [Dan] What?
Oh, it looks so clean and nice now though.
- [Zeke] Oh no, it just popped out.
- It's just hard for it to clamp it, right?
- Yeah.
- It's because of the weird shape that it is,
so rather than going the lengthwise,
we're gonna just cut the top off of it.
I think we're gonna carve it to look like a poop emoji.
- Can you do that?
- If somebody in the comments
knows how to carve rocks really well, let us know,
and maybe we can send you this top portion
and you can carve a poop emoji it.
Poop emoji with real poop.
That's how much we're going to cut off.
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- [Lincoln] Oh!
- Ooh, what are we looking at?
I see stuff in there.
- [Lincoln] There's food.
- [Dan] There's different colors for sure.
- None of the structural pattern of the coprolite,
the original feces is there.
It's just desiccated and filled in with the minerals.
- I think that's a beetle right there.
This is really cool looking,
and it does look kind of like, I don't know,
to me, I'm no rock expert,
but it reminds me of when we cut open the meteorite here,
and we just pulled it out, and it was all shiny.
It's kind of a different texture.
Have you ever polished a turd before?
- Yes.
- We're going for it.
Let's do it.
Let's polish this thing off real quick,
and then I really do think, how can we turn this into this?
Gotta help us, guys.
And now we have this polishing machine right here.
(relaxing music)
- We polished a turd!
- Okay, we are done.
Look how red or brown the water is.
Turns out there's a lot of iron in dinosaur poop.
- [Lincoln] Turd's looking pretty.
- [Dan] Oh, your poor outfit.
Look at that.
This is it.
Look how pretty that is.
I like how you rounded it.
The polished coprolite look,
oh, that's good stuff right there.
- Oh, it's so smooth, just like the meteorite.
- [Dan] Check this out.
Ooh, you got the magnifying glass here.
- [Rick] There's no, no organic structure inside.
- [Dan] Organic structure meaning plants, bushes,
- Yeah.
- [Dan] Is there a small chance this is from a human?
- No.
- [Dan] No chance at all?
- No.
- I would imagine like, if this was from a human,
once it fossilizes,
it's a lot smaller than it originally is, right?
A big thanks to Rockpick Legend and to Rick
for hooking us up again and for sharing his knowledge.
Check out his Facebook page.
We're gonna leave a link in the description.
He has all kinds of rocks and minerals.
- [Lincoln] So many cool rocks.
- Different things for sell in there.
Let us know what other things
you'd like to see us do that's like rocks or minerals.
That's what's inside of dinosaur poop.
This was a fun experiment.
- The craprolite will now end this video.
- [Dan] It's not craprolite, it's coprolite.
- Goodbye, everybody!
We polished a turd!