{"id":226079,"date":"2025-01-28T12:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/66-million-year-old-vomit-fossil-discovered-in-denmark\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:05:17","slug":"66-million-year-old-vomit-fossil-discovered-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/66-million-year-old-vomit-fossil-discovered-in-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"66 million-year-old vomit fossil discovered in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 66 million-year-old vomit fossil has been discovered in Denmark.<\/p>\n

Found along the Stevns Klint coastal cliff, the fossil is regurgitated lumps of sea lily – a type of marine invertebrate.<\/p>\n

They were eaten during the Cretaceous period tens of millions of years ago.<\/p>\n

Fossil hunter Peter Bennicke made the discovery after splitting open a piece of chalk.<\/p>\n

He brought the fossil to a local museum where it was cleaned up and examined by experts.<\/p>\n

It was there John Jagt concluded the remains were sea lilies that had been eaten by an animal which then threw up the indigestible parts.<\/p>\n

Such discoveries are invaluable to scientists because they offer a window into ancient ecosystems and reveal what predators ate and how food chains functioned millions of years ago.<\/p>\n

The find was named Danekrae DK-1295 – Danekrae are rare natural treasures of Denmark.<\/p>\n

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Museum curator at Geomuseum Faxe and member of the Danish Wildlife Committee Jesper Milan told Sky News it was difficult to tell exactly which animal had thrown up the remains.<\/p>\n

But he said it was likely from something that specialised in eating things with hard shells, such as a fish or a bottom-dwelling shark.<\/p>\n

He added: “We have found teeth from sharks that were specialised in crushing hard-shelled prey in the same area.<\/p>\n

“They are called Heterodontus, it’s a relative of the modern Port Jackson shark. That one is high on my list of suspects.”<\/p>\n

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Mr Milan continued: “It is truly an unusual find.<\/p>\n

“Sea lilies are not a particularly nutritious diet, as they mainly consist of calcareous plates held together by very few soft parts.<\/p>\n

“But here is an animal, probably a type of fish, that 66 million years ago ate sea lilies that lived on the bottom of the Cretaceous sea and regurgitated the skeletal parts back up.<\/p>\n

“Such a find provides important new knowledge about the relationship between predators and prey and the food chains in the Cretaceous sea.”<\/p>\n

The vomit fossil will be displayed in a special exhibition at the Geomuseum Faxe.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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