You might have been to some incredible museums – but have you ever been to a 'poo-seum'?
Well, the first-of-its-kind 'Poozeum' is in the US, and features thousands of pieces of poo from different animals throughout history. But don't worry about the smell – all the items are fossilized, so you won't need to hold your nose!
The Poozeum was set up by George Frandsen, who holds the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of fossilized poo.
[Note: The scientific name for a piece of fossilized poo is a coprolite. Coprolites can give scientists clues about what kinds of food an animal ate].
Frandsen (left) actually began collecting fossils of poo when he was a teenager, finding them both funny and interesting. He opened the Poozeum in 2014 as an online resource while donating pieces of his exhibit to museums across the US.
Frandsen said the “enthusiastic response” to the early stages of the Poozeum motivated him to open the physical location in the Arizona city of Williams in May of this year to address the “glaring absence of coprolite representation” in natural history museums.
He now has over 8,000 pieces in his collection, including that of dinosaurs and a renowned 67.5cm (127-inch) sample of carnivore coprolite dubbed "Barnum".
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