Scientist Problems - Tumblr Posts

so at work I was going through this bag of fossiliferous nodules (mostly gumball-sized pebbles) that were collected last summer

and came across a dried-out piece of dung that had accidentally got shoveled into the bag with the nodules

and at first I was a bit grossed out because y’know, unexpected poop

but I realized that since some of the nodules are probably coprolitic

what I was really grossed out by was not “ew, there’s a piece of poop in this bag"

but, “ew, this poop is not nearly old enough to belong in this bag"