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South Florida Museum Opening Fossilized Poop Exhibit

The South Florida Museum in Bradenton will open a new exhibit, one that leaves many feeling slightly grossed-out.

The Bradenton Herald reports that on Saturday, the museum will launch ``The Amazing Coprolite Collection.''

Coprolite is fossilized poop.

The exhibit is George Frandsen's Guinness World Records-certified world's largest private collection of fossilized dung, 1,277 individual coprolites from 15 states and eight countries. 

In August, two paleontology specialists from the Florida Museum of Natural History inspected all the specimens in the collection to verify authenticity. More than 30 had to be ``flushed'' when they were determined to be fake poop.

 
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