Paul McDevitt
Jurassic parp
IT SEEMS Uranus isn’t the only stinky gas giant in our solar system (12 May).Catching up on his Â鶹´«Ã½ backlog, Jeff Dickens was drawn to Feedback’s discussion of the science of flatulent animals, and particularly how birds are immune to such digestive grumbles (14 April). “This set me thinking. Coprolites are common through the geological record, and particularly noteworthy near the K/T boundary, where the poor critters seriously had the wind put up them!”
Yet in Jeff’s eyes, these fossilised droppings more closely resemble mammalian deposits than those left on his car by modern-day birds. The discrepancy has left Jeff wondering:…
