14 DAY TRIAL // It must feel like Christmas for the Smithsonian Institution! Word has it the Institution is about to become the proud owner of a T-rex poop replica that the Royal Saskatchewan Museum was kind enough to part with.
The poop replica is expected to be put on display in 2014 at a new exhibit titled “Putting Dinosaurs in Their Right Place.”
The exhibit will be housed by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Paleontologists estimate that the fossilized chunk of T-rex dung that this replica is based on was deposited some 65 million years ago, sources say.
The 65 million-year-old dinosaur dung reportedly contains several bone chips, proving that T-rex was quite fond of feasting on other animals and that his stomach didn't hold on to food long enough to digest it in its entirety.