{"id":124603,"date":"2025-01-30T10:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/66-million-year-old-fossil-of-vomit-discovered-see-what-researchers-found-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:40:36","slug":"66-million-year-old-fossil-of-vomit-discovered-see-what-researchers-found-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/66-million-year-old-fossil-of-vomit-discovered-see-what-researchers-found-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"66-million-year-old fossil of vomit discovered: See what researchers found – USA TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vomit normally isn’t celebrated or something people ogle over, but exceptions can seemingly be made when it’s 66 million years old.
Peter Bennicke, a local fossil hunter, discovered the blob at the Cliffs of Stevns, a UNESCO-listed geological site on the Danish island of Zealand made up of about 9 miles of fossil-rich coastal cliff, the Museum of East Zealand said in a news release<\/a>.
Danish authorities said that the fossil belonged to an animal and that the contents of the vomit contained sea lily remains. Dutch sea lily expert John Jagt concluded that the remains consisted of two different species of sea lilies mixed into a clump and that the creatures were eaten by another animal that had regurgitated the indigestible skeletal parts of their bodies, according to the release.
“It is truly an unusual find. Sea lilies are not a particularly nutritious diet, as they mainly consist of calcareous plates held together by very few soft parts,” Jesper Mila\u0300n, a Danish paleontologist and curator of Geology at Geomuseum Faxe, said in the release.
Mila\u0300n 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>, was a narrow and shallow sea that connected the modern Gulf of Mexico and the modern Arctic Ocean.
The discovery provides important and new knowledge about the relationship between predators and prey and the food chains in the Cretaceous Sea, Mila\u0300n said.
According to\u00a0UNESCO<\/a>, the Cliffs of Stevns contain “exceptional evidence of the impact of the Chicxulub meteorite that crashed into the planet about 65 million years ago,” which is commonly believed to have caused the extinction of dinosaurs.\u00a0
Sea lilies, also known as crinoids, have declined in diversity since their kind peaked about 300 million years ago. But more than 650 living species are known, and\u00a0they remain abundant in many marine habitats ranging from shallow coral reefs to the floors of oceanic trenches, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a> said.
The throw-up is also classified as “Danekr\u00e6,” which is a designation for Danish objects of \u201cexceptional natural historical value.\u201d This means the vomit belongs to Denmark and not its finder, Bennicke, so it must be turned over to a natural history museum.
The vomit will be placed in a small special exhibition at the Geomuseum Faxe Museum in Faxe, Denmark, during the winter holidays for people to view, according to the release.
Mila\u0300n called the vomit “the most famous piece of puke in the world,” The New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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