A SCIENTIST made a weird discovery after breaking open a chunk of chalk and discovering 66 million-year-old fish vomit.
The discover relationship again to the age of the dinosaurs was made by fossil hunter Peter Bennicke in Denmark.
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Bennicke discovered the weird fossil on the Stevns Klint coastal cliff, on the Danish island of Zealand, after which took it to a close-by museum for additional investigation.
On the Museum of East Zealand, skilled John Jagt discovered that hidden contained in the piece of chalk was fossilised vomit containing two sorts of sea lilies that had been eaten in the course of the Cretaceous interval.
The remaining items of the marine invertebrate that might not be digested by the animal give researchers an perception into the meals chains and historic ecosystems that existed tens of thousands and thousands of years in the past.
Researchers are unable to call the precise animal that ate the ocean lillies however museum creator at Geomuseum Faxe Jesper Milan instructed Sky Information it was possible a fish, presumably a bottom-feeding shark.
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Milan, who’s a member of the Danish Wildlife Committee, stated: “It’s a really uncommon discover.
“Sea lilies are usually not a very nutritious meals supply, as they primarily include calcareous plates held collectively by only a few delicate elements.
“However right here is an animal, most likely a kind of fish, that 66 million years in the past ate sea lilies that lived on the underside of the Cretaceous sea and regurgitated the skeletal elements again up.”
Regardless of not with the ability to definitively identify the animal, Milan has a high “suspect.”
“We’ve got discovered tooth from sharks that had been specialised in crushing hard-shelled prey in the identical space,” he defined.
“They’re known as Heterodontus; it is a relative of the fashionable Port Jackson shark.
“That one is excessive on my record of suspects.”
“That is the world’s most well-known piece of puke ever,” he instructed the BBC.
Bennicke has been credited with discovering a uncommon and pure treasure of Denmark referred to as a Danekrae, with the fossil being named Danekrae DK-1295.
The fossil will probably be on show at an exhibition on the Geomuseum Faxe.
In the meantime, consultants in Peru have discovered the fossil of an ancestor of the Nice White shark.
The 23ft, 9-million-year-old shark referred to as Cosmopolitodus Hastalis was found final week 146 miles south of Lima in Peru‘s Pisco basin.
The uncommon near-complete fossil confirmed that the beast had flesh-tearing tooth measuring as much as 8.9cm in size.
The shark roamed the seas thousands and thousands of years in the past and was possible one of many main predators in its ecosystem on the time.
One other latest discover is that of a Behemoth horned dinosaur that roamed the Earth 95 million years in the past.
The invention got here after fossils of the 10metre beast had been destroyed.
