I cut Granny's Coprolites open! (Fossilized 💩) 

Don’t be a stinker, hit that like button 💩

I taught Jr high earth science. I taught fossils at the beginning of the school year. On the last day in the spring one student stole something out of another one's locker. The kid was really polite but was furious at the other one and wanted to call him names and shouted "you jerk - you...you...you... COPROLITE! You're just a coprolite! 😂😂😂 now that's a lesson that was internalized!

That one with the orange - you said it was your number one. I beg to differ. I believe it's really your number two. 😉

I never thought I would spend over 15 minutes looking at somebody handle poop. But here I am. They really do look fascinating inside. It sucks that they actually sink. That orange one was really neat. I've never seen an agatized pinecone before and I am not disappointed, it was so cool!

And my daddy told me ya just can't polish a turd.......who's right, who's wrong, lol?

Chip off the ole plop! 😂😂

This is why I don't lick rocks 😂

The pinecone is gorgeous, and would make a stunning pendant. The "patty" was interesting.

If you ease up on the pressure as you're cutting, you will have less chipping. I've been working lapidary since age 14 yrs. And instill have to remeber this myself as it's easy to get excited and push to quickly. The microscope is a great idea, but don't forget to check them with a UV light. Appreciate your content, keep it coming👍🏻💯

I like the fact they were wrapped in toilet paper.

Imagine having a kitchen counter made from Granny G's coprolites

My Granny usually had a different meaning in mind when she said “Cut The Sheeit!”…

7:09 this possible coprolite is almost 100% Iron Pyrite, and many of the deep-sea fossils have a great deal of Iron Pyrite in this so even though we see it quite often Iron Pyritized fossils are extremely cool to me. especially when you find almost perfectly round nodes of sediment with sea fossils in them that have been perfectly polished and look like a solid ball of Iron Pyrite! So, if this truly is a fish turd, it is the most blinging turd ever seen so far! LOL

Ahh, you found all the Congressmen, Senators, and Presidents!

"Chip off the old plop." Such a way with words!! That critter ate an orange,/red crayon ...

You cut the crap out of those rocks. Nice job!

Granny G has a sense of humor😂Who would have thought that it would smell after millions of years?!

Just an idea, put a painter’s tape around the stone before you cut. It might help with some of the issues of breaking. Maybe worth a try. Other than that, that 🦖💩 looks cool. I didn’t think that there would be a smell..interesting. Very cool and thank you for sharing this. ✌️🫶😃

I didn't realize poo had such beauty. 😄 I like that. Thanks for sharing.🧡

I'm a total geo nerd, and I just stumbled across your channel by accident. Can I just say I love what you're doing here? Rocks and humor... Two of my FAVORITE things! Keep up the good work!

The pinecone is my favorite!! That's amazing.

Absolutely love videos like this...not only do you explore a wide range of environments looking for stone specimens specific to those areas but you also explore the innards of said stones which make the hobby of rock collecting that much more intriguing. Bravo to you sir! Keep doing what you're doing and thanks so much for sharing. Love this stuff!!!

OMG, I've never enjoyed or laughed as much as listening to your tongue in cheek comments as you cut. 😂 Never knew poo could be so much fun. Especially loved the agatized specimens. TY for such a fun start to my day.

Poo pearls! 😂

That one had worms . You could see the fossilized worms in it ! Amazing

I knew a rock shop owner on Cape Cod. A lady picked up a coprolite. Owner said to give it a lick if she wanted to know how it would look like polished. Then told her what coprolite really is. Sued and paid out $5000. This was in the late 70’s.

BTW, I refer to poo pyrite as Poo-ls gold!

Those were super interesting! The one with the orange bands was so pretty🎉

What a HOOT!!😂🤣. Potty humor isn’t just for kids. Us maturing adults can’t help but laugh too!😂🤣. Thanks A.D. for a great start to my day🤣🤣🤣🤗

Well, I'm thinking, what to do with all this coprolite! A lot of variety. Cut into small tiles and cover a table top! Encrust a jewelry box? Cover the counter next to the toilet. Woooopie!!!

Oh wow! Those of us who are into rocks and fossils are really excited by what you are showing today. And please thank Granny for giving you all those neat cards. As you well know, Taylor, sometimes knowing where a fossil is found is the #1 clue to its identification. Thank you, Granny!

Omg I was literally eating corn when you said that in the intro. I struggled, but I managed to not spit it all over my phone ❤😂😂☠️

So so interesting, who would have thought that💩 could be so beautiful. Thank you granny g .👍

that one at 5.47 was special😮😲Wow, that pinecone was actually like an artwork, so nice!! Never heard about coprolite🤔 That flat poop had beutiful orange color, interesting.

Holy shit....so beautiful....Thank you Grdma G....❤

sadly my home had been robbed by friends of my daughter. I lost a really pretty corprolite. She and I have come to terms with how she lives her life and her friends. Sad lots of my things i treasured. So fun to watch you open some true bits of the past.

5:46 gives new meaning to the phrase “thunder” egg. Looks nice inside.

Gotta love playing with a bit of "chit"..so fun!

This is the funniest! Love the wrapping. Great sense of humor!!

Dziękuję💖Niektóre okazy bardzo ładne☺ Masz wspaniałe poczucie 😂humoru.

You're so "stinking" cute with your synonyms for coprolite!

Some are pretty!! I LOVE crystals and fossils and things from the earth that are old it’s sooo beautiful!! Mother Nature!!

I am lol, at the ‘No it doesn’t smell!’ And the pinecone was wonderful-so beautiful!

i couldnt tell if all of them were coprolites or not(not my field of study, haha) but several of them were unmistakable! it is amazing that minerals could order themselves so tidily that you can =see= the shape of the partially/fully digested roughage that used to be in them. plants that have gone through an animal's gut then decomposed to the point where the space they once were fills with stone. the world is amazing!

Granny's have the best interests but slices under glass made into a table with all the colours would look cool .And a great way for scientists to see what past animals diets were

I love watching you work!🥰 It's like watching presents being opened every day!!!😁

This was sooo cool! The pine cone and the Pattie were my favorites! Thankyou!

Eeeew‼️😂🤣 u r very funny. Thx for the laugh. I do like your presentation. I’m impatient & like that u show them right after u cut them.🥰

Can’t wait to see this! I called in sick just for the show!

I have never ever heard of fossilized poop until this video! Never stop learning

Thank you, here in Brazil there are many too

The pinecone is beautiful so it's the orange 🧡

I never saw anything like this before. I am an electrician and have had to core and saw through concrete for conduit and I have kept several cores because the aggregate was interesting. Coming from a different use of cutting I have some ideas for you. I would suggest using a sled to minimize fractures, and maybe using a towel and clamps to secure the stones. Also if you suspect something is special a new but slightly broken in blade works so much better when cutting. Another thing I noticed from my personal experience is slow uniform pressure gives me the best cuts

An interesting and educational bit of doo. I'm rather surprised that being fossilized that it would stink. Thank you Grandma G and Agate Dad

This video wasn't crappy at all thank you

I was literally eating chocolate chip cookies and some milk while watching this! That one with the orange bits through it was my favorite. Love the vids!

I'm a rock collector myself and this is really funny. In my country, we have the world expert in extracting DNA from coprolites😂 You are so killing me with this.... Agatized Turd😆😆

Mythbusters proved that you can polish a turd. You proved that you can cut one too. Or cut two too? As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇

My grandma passed in Arizona on Thanksgiving. She had a fantastic rock collection (some purchased, a lot personally collected), and we had her memorial 2 weeks ago. I may be the most knowledgeable family member when it comes to rocks and minerals. 2 weeks ago my Aunt wanted to show me a specimen she was taking home. She told me her mom always called it dinosaur poop, but my aunt never believed her - wanted to keep the rock purely for the sentimental value, recalling all the light hearted jokes about the dinosaur poop. I don't know much about coprolite, but have seen a good bit of it. Was expecting like a pocket sized rock, or an unusual formation of something more common. I was shocked when she brought out a piece that looked amazingly similar to coprolite I've seen.... And weighs at least 15lbs! Should have taken a few pictures, but didn't, this thing was huge! Told her I don't know for sure, but it looks like it certainly could be. Also told her i think the name for it is something like "crapolite", lol! Super excited to see you cut open some, so soon after! Happy coincidence! Fascinated to see the insides! I would never suggest my aunt get it cut, in fact you've made me decide the opposite, with all the chipping. However, I'm sharing your video with her, so she may also enjoy the beautiful variety of fossilized poop!

Who would have thought that Poo could be pretty LOL Oh my gosh, the End is too funny!😂

Your number one with number two

6:13 is definitely my number one as well! That orange is insanely bright!! It almost looks like some sort of smile mold! Still disappointed you didn't find any corn though.

On the first pattie shaped one, those "fractures" might be insect burrows ,as the placard suggests

Your laugh is the best!

Pleease do a video with your grandma with microscopic photos🎉🥳⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Not bad. I thought they would be s#itty.😂😂😂.

How funny would it be to find a corn kernel ! The bumpy one , left piece looks like a badger !

Why didn't it dissolve during rains and floods? You would think that it would have dissolved a long time ago.

Very nice of you….and, entertaining! Thank you!

Thank you Granny G.!

I was always told you cant polish a turd 😂 some are really gorgeous

That pinecone is extraordinary!! I never thought of so many types of coprolite. Duh. Why wouldn't it there be ... I have a cow pattie shaped rock from Lake Superior beach. It was shaped so much like a ploppy cow pie I just couldn't leave it behind. We call it my dinosaur poop rock. It would have to be a smaller Cow sized dino. I think it's a pinky toned rock, grainy. I didn't think it was really a dino pie. I'll locate and send a pic. Also coprolite cabochon cracked me up. Thinking I'd want mega sealer layers on it ...

I bought a coprolite from a fossil vendor in Alberta, Canada. It’s thought to be from a raptor type dinosaur and is a bunch of brown “ chunks” about 4 inches long. Quite attractive, for a turd, and it doesn’t stink. No plans on slicing it open though. I enjoyed your video today. Thanks! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦

The one with the orange lines inside looks like cave drawings.

Just so interesting! Thanks to you and Granny.

I used to collect fossils from Lyme Regis beach.

🤔 hmm... learned something new today ... will have to pay more attention when I pick up a "rock or stone" 😮

Loved the PINECONE! ❤

The pine cone was extremely cool! I would love some thin cut pieces of that to make jewelry from.

Enjoyed watching . thx for sharing

Some cool stool cutting. ✌️😎👍

These rocks are beautiful. I like watching you opening rocks. I tried collecting rocks and quartz as a kid. My Mom laughed and put my rocks in the drive. I'm kidding. Great job buddy.

I laughed when you commented about how you described the poo 😂 petrified poo is interesting to know what was eaten back in the days 😮

What a granny you have! ❤

5:25 with the orange fire, taco night... 🤭😝

Love the humor you add to your videos!😂

Hiyo AgateDad- Ima fieldwork geologist and do mineral specimen ID as dayjob, but been chasing agates for 51years (since 5 growing up in NW IL on Mississippi River small town. Still my home base!) I've watched a few of your vids, (you have a LOT!~) Glad you are enjoying the hunt, and sectioning to see wha'ts inside! Keep having fun! Allow me to elucidate (I.D.) a few things in this video. I humorously say this to people: "I'm not always right? But I'm rarely wrong! LoL:)- of course, YMMV. Best Regards! 4:36 Utah? coprolite- I have seen lots of them have a septarian type- agatized center as such ( mudstone clast drys- gets shrinkage cracks at interior-chalced/qtz druse/calcite). 8:45 Ive seen, not handled, spiral copro. Though, I wondered if was partial orthocone cephalopod cast/concretion. Not knowing origin site makes hardest to educated guess. NW Coastal concretions/copro vs MT/Dakotas vs UT. Yes, spalling is so frustration! 11:33 orbicular rhyolite/lithophysae "type" chunk. the knobs are the solid lithophysae (like dud t-eggs). The cross section shows the flow banding of rhyolitic pyroclastic matrix, and orbs. Later the groundmass got eroded and thats this. OVERALL- TRY THIS- FRACTURE CONSERVATION..... a lil trick I use A LOT! get "Jet Instant" super glue (blue label- is very thin!) get and use the long, micro thin, 'Flexitips' to distribute glue over fractured area. I use microtorch to carefully heatshrink the flexitip onto the glue bottle nozzle tip. you dont have to "cap" the flexitip. next use time, The glue in end of tip may be hard plug, scissor snip off a mm bit, good to go. For specimenlean of debris(no glue crud in place) and absolutely dry (Water in fractures will cause glue to set instantly and effloresce as ugly milk white). Jet is teh right thinness to wick into the cracks - give it a few seconds, then blot excess off. If you glue your finger to rock/bottle etc. do NOT pull away. TWIST, to break bond. ya loose a lil bit exterior skin-no biggee. Pulling delaminates deeper skin-not cool! Let dry for a day. CUT- and you will not get all that crumbling. Works great for face/ skim cutting, the fractured skim will often be a thin slab, instead of junk bits. Works REALLY good too, on porous sedimentary stuff likesome of these coprolites. Last important thing- do NOT breathe the glue vapors. You can develop and allergy to the glue (I have it- SUX! 6hrs later-BOOM- runny nose congestion for an hour or 3. Look it up-its a thing) No one told me:( I use an exhaust fan (either room fan blowing past, or BEST- like a clothes dryer tube with small inline fan going from an open face box out thru window. The Glue is SO useful, and PPE is cheap and simple! Rock On!

This is an awesome video! Thank you for sharing. So interesting 🤔 and cool❣️

Your videos are always so fun. You have a great sense of humor!

I love your potty humor! Great video, I did LOL several times. 😂. That pine one was glorious!

These are the prettiest poops I’ve ever seen!

The funniest people I ever worked with were the geologists at the Kentucky Geological Survey. They could make a joke out of everything. One of my jobs was to transcribe field notes, often from microfilm. I wish now I'd compiled a collection of them. Too bad that was 50 years ago.

Thanks for plopping by.

Wow! I loved this. Thanks.

7:35 looks like a fossilized snickers bar 🤭

Awesome never heard of crapperlite

Def a fun one, thanks for sharing! ❤

That small piece was a dinggleberry with a kernel of corn. 😋

This has to be one of the funniest episodes!

The comment of smell like oil or road tar, can be the same when cutting some types of Australian opal. I find that odor when I cut some opal with black potch in it. Black potch from Mintabie and also some Lightening Ridge at times. I love cutting Australian opal and have material from multiple fields, fossils vegetation , shells, boulder, koriot, etc.