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  • 4,300 Years of Bat Poop From The Depths of a Jamaican Cave Have Revealed Earth's Past

    04/14/2021 9:06:08 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 53 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 14 APRIL 2021 | DAVID NIELD
    The cave entrance. (Chris Grooms) You may not give a pile of bat poop gathered over 4,300 years a second look – but to a group of scientists, it's provided an intriguing insight into how bat diets and therefore climate conditions have shifted over thousands of years. Taller than the average man (2 meters or 6-and-a-half feet), the pile of poop (also known as guano) records history in clear layers, much like sediments under a lake. By analyzing the layers back through time, the scientists have been able to figure out changes in the diets of the bats that have...