I swear I am not making this up

[ellid]

A precious Viking artifact has been damaged and repaired.

Warning: do not click if drinking or eating. Also, warning for flat-out disgusting content.

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[crazykimmy.livejournal.com]

You can't make shit like that up.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the coprolith itself, but those eggs.... ><

Iggt.

[thickets.livejournal.com]

Okay, actually the thing that had my jaw dropping was this!

Gill Snape, a student conservator on a placement with the York Arcaeological Trust, who will assist in the operation, said that the natural replacement of organic matter with minerals - a type of fossilisation process known as mineralisation - had given a remarkable weight to the "long and fat" deposit.

"Whoever passed it probably hadn't performed for a few days, shall we say," she said.

XD It's in York, too, which one of the probable locations of Spinner's End. Somebody needs to work it into a fic. Snape's mad Muggle, Viking poop caretaker relative, Gill.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

You have an evil, evil mind...but I'll confess that I thought the same thing almost immediately.

[julian-black.livejournal.com]

It has fossilized shit, with a name, no less! And someone named Snape!

News stories don't get any better than this. Really, they don't. My inner eight-year-old thanks you.

[aleoninc.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha! I saw that too and gave a smirk.

[kamion.livejournal.com]

Snape isn't that uncommon a name, but having one looking after petrified shit makes you wonder if Azkaban wasn't a more lenient punisment.

[varianor.livejournal.com]

The fact that the curator is called Snape is just too bizarre.