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66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark

www.bbc.com 66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark

Experts say the discovery will help them understand what animals were eating during the Cretaceous period.

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3d ago

66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark

www.bbc.com /news/articles/cp82jle12j7o

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4d ago

66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark

www.bbc.com /news/articles/cp82jle12j7o

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It's fish vomit
- 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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I would’ve thought vomit would biodegrade before it could fossilize
- They vomited chalk/calcium carbonate from marine invertebrates.

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