‘Curiosity’ fuels world’s most prolific fossilized

George Frandsen’s Poozeum in Arizona features nearly 10,000 coprolites – fossilized feces originating in Earth’s distant past

Insights into “the diets, behaviors and environment of ancient creatures” that are available in their fossilized droppings motivated one US man to not only amass the world’s largest collection of such specimens – but also to quit his corporate career and open a so-called Poozeum, as he recounts in a new interview.

In remarks published on Friday, George Frandsen – who has held the Guinness World Records mark for largest collection of coprolites since 2015 – recounted how the journey to his unique place on the global stage began when he visited a rock and fossil shop in Utah when he was 18.