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66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark

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66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark

Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'English · 1 month 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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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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