A cropped closer look at the sea lily pieces in the fossil vomit found in Denmark ... Experts determined the vomit likely came from a fish that lived 66 million years ago.
MOST people know the difference in shape that there is between the tail (caudal fin) of a salmon and that ... superior lobe characterises every fossil fish of the strata anterior to and including ...
The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which tells scientists about an organism's daily life.
The fish is thought to have chewed up and spit out some unlucky sea creatures, resulting in this unique fossil. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window ...
In the Cretaceous period, a shark or another kind of fish found sea lilies less than ... Until last November, when an amateur fossil hunter, Peter Bennicke, split a piece of chalk and discovered ...
Although the fossilized vomit dates back to the era of the dinosaurs, it does not originate from a dinosaur. As reported by Stern, the vomit was produced by a fish that lived in the Cretaceous Sea.
The prehistoric patch of puke sat there long enough to turn into a fossil — languishing in obscurity until an amateur sleuth made the gross and engrossing discovery last November. The putrid ...
The regurgitated blob was discovered by Peter Bennicke, a local amateur fossil hunter ... “But here is an animal, probably a type of fish, that 66 million years ago ate sea lilies that lived ...
Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in fossil form. And it's now arrived at a museum in Denmark. The fossil was found at Stevns Klint, a cliff in eastern Denmark known for ...