Scientists dig into 4,300-year-old mound of bat poop Dan Avery For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo
Scientists have drilled ice cores to analyze environmental changes for decades, but now the technique is being applied to a less appealing medium: Bat poop.
Researchers discovered a veritable mountain of guano deep in a cave in Jamaica, deposited over the course of 4,300 years.
Left largely undisturbed, the pile stands more than six feet tall.
Analysis of undigested material in the dung paints a timeline of everything from dry periods in the Middle Ages to the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the advent of the gas-powered engine.
Poop core records 4,300 years of bat diet and environment
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Fifty Years Ago, at Lake Mungo, the True Scale of Aboriginal Australians’ Epic Story Was Revealed
Australia’s deep history was uncovered at Lake Mungo.
This month marks the golden jubilee of a watershed event in the history of this nation that should cause all Australians to pause and reflect.
On July 15, 1968, while searching for clues to past climates and ancient landscapes on land under the joint care of Paakantyi/Barkindji, Ngiyampaa and Mutthi Mutthi people, Earth scientist Jim Bowler ambled across the cremated remains of an Aboriginal woman eroding from a crescent-shaped dune flanking the shoreline of now-dry Lake Mungo in western New South Wales.