ORLANDO, Fla. — When you gotta go, you gotta go. That is also the situation for dinosaurs, and there's an attraction in town right now that's all about it.
Most of us are passionate about something, right? For George Frandsen, it's dino poop. “When I was 18, I went into a rock and fossil shop in Moab, Utah,” he said. “I was enamored. It was the best thing I'd ever seen.”
Thanks to Frandsen, his record-breaking collection of dinosaur poo is now at the Orlando Science Center.
The Poozeum is a collection of some of the largest coprolites ever found. But the Orlando Science Center also touts having so much more than a “crappy complement” to its existing dinosaur fossil displays.
The Poozeum — the No. 1 for Fossilized No. 2 — is located on level 4. You can check out nearly a dozen specimens, including Barnum — the Guinness World Record Holder for “world’s largest fossilized excrement from a carnivore.”
So where is a good place to find fossilized poop in Florida? Frandsen said that it's Peace River — northeast of Bartow in Polk County.