The lump of vomit —more scientifically referred to as ‘regurgitate’—was discovered by Peter Bennicke as he walked along the ...
Around 66 million years ago, a marine creature from the Cretaceous era munched on some sea lilies and developed an […] ...
Sixty-six million years ago, a marine creature, minding its own business at the bottom of a Cretaceous sea, munched on some sea lilies—then didn’t feel too great. Now, a fossil hunter in Denmark named ...
Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.
The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which ...
What does the vomit's discovery mean? Milàn postulated that a fish ate the sea lilies living at the bottom of the Cretaceous Sea, which, according to the Utah State University Prehistoric Museum ...
A 66-million-year-old fossilized vomit discovery in Denmark offers a rare glimpse into the prehistoric Cretaceous food chain.
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. "This find is a unique glimpse into the ...
"But here is an animal, probably some kind of fish, that 66 million years ago ate sea lilies that lived at the bottom of the Cretaceous sea and regurgitated the skeletal parts." According to ...
In the quiet cliffs of Stevns, Denmark, a 79-year-old amateur fossil hunter split open a piece of chalk last November and ...