The faeces —faecal depositions, dung, bovine dung or, more commonly known as, cow poo — have been a crucial element that allows us to talk about this incredible discovery today. Manure, stercorem horribilis, in its scientific name, is a mixture of animal faeces with urine and bedding, i.e. water and undigested ingested materials, such as straw, fodder, grass, plants, grains, paper and plastic.
A new type of fossilisation (novus fossile de merda), allowed an almost perfect preservation of the remains of the Tourist sapiens.
If we talk specifically about the manure that concerns us, when the organic and liquid matter passed into the soil through rain, the gasification of some of its elements, combined with the lack of oxygen in the environment, created a perfect balance of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium for a new type of fossilisation (novus fossile de merda) that allowed an almost perfect preservation of the remains of the Tourist sapiens. Above all, however, we owe this miracle to the large quantity of Edelweiss (Leontopodium nivale), the Austrian national flower of the Asteraceae family (Asteraceae). This flower, now extinct, typically grew in the alpine environment between 1800m and 3000m altitude, has been found in large quantities in faeces. The terpenes, phenylpropanoids, fatty acids, polyacetylenes and leoligin of the Edelweiss plant were responsible for creating the perfect and practically unique shit of the Montafon and Alpe Nova cows.
TOURIST SAPIENS 