Posted on 01/28/2025 6:33:36 AM PST by Red Badger
A piece of fossilised vomit dating back to the time of the dinosaurs has been discovered in Denmark.
Local fossil hunter Peter Bennicke found the fossil at Stevns Klint - a Unesco-listed coastal cliff in the east of the country.
The self-declared "fossil geek" said he came across some unusual-looking fragments which turned out to be pieces of sea lily - an underwater species related to starfish and sea urchins - in a piece of chalk.
Mr Bennicke took the fragments to be examined at the Museum of East Zealand, which confirmed the vomit could be dated to the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago - a time when dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops existed.
Jesper Milan, palaeontologist and curator at the museum, told the BBC it was "truly an unusual find" as it helps explain relationships in the prehistoric food chain.
"It tells us something about who was eating who 66 million years ago," he said.
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 everyday situation in the bottom of the Cretaceous sea - the sea during which the dinosaurs lived," he said.
The discovery is also significant for improving our understanding of past ecosystems.
Mr Milan said his museum had only sent the information to the local press but the discovery has sparked global interest. "This is the world's most famous piece of puke ever," he said.
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No, fish puke.
Quick give them a $20mm grant!
I love Ram’s Bladder Cup!
Eat them up, Yum!
What is that, halibut?
Seems like only yesterday I was strafing so many of your homes.
Now I’m here begging you not to make such fine cars!
A marine version of Mr. Creosote?
Who knew Lloyd Bridges did such a great Biden imitation.
That’s quite a delicacy. Great when stirred into caviar.
And the guy on the right just keeps on eating. LOL
Those were a couple of great movies
On discovery, someone asked, “Is it ripe yet?”, to which the discoverer put a bit of it on a cracker, and swallowed it down with a shot of Aquavit liquor, then said, “Almost. Let’s give it another two weeks.”
it must have tasted Danish food.
Jerry: “I haven’t thrown up since June 29, 1980”
Also: “Why are fish so thin? Because they eat fish!”
Jerry: “I haven’t thrown up since June 29, 1980”
“I think I got David Duke and Farrakhan down there.”
With that laugh, he’s lucky she wasn’t also a two-face with man hands, whose name rhymed with a body part, and wasn’t afraid to use a toothbrush that had been in the toilet.
Little did I realize that yesterday I unceremoniously flushed a future piece of archaeological history down the toilet. Who knows what future archaeologists will be missing when they don’t find it.
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