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oleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 4 months ago

66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark

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66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark

www.bbc.com

oleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 4 months ago
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Experts say the discovery will help them understand what animals were eating during the Cretaceous period.
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    Party foul forever

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    It’s fish vomit

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      During the period fish and sharks would eat sea lilies, which are hard to digest meaning they would then “regurgitate all the chalk bits”, he explained.

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    Skål

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    I would’ve thought vomit would biodegrade before it could fossilize

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      They vomited chalk/calcium carbonate from marine invertebrates.

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