A Man Was Taking A Walk Along A Cliff. He Found ‘The World’s Most Famous Piece of Puke Ever.’

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A Man Was Taking A Walk Along A Cliff. He Found ‘The World’s Most Famous Piece of ***** Ever.’

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A self-appointed fossil hunter in Denmark discovered fossilized vomit from 66 million years ago.

The chalky find contains portion of sea lilies likely consumed by a fish predator from the Cretaceous era.

The fossil was discovered at Stevns Klint—a UNESCO-listed coastal cliff in Denmark known for being rich in fossils from the Cretaceous era.

On the scenic Danish seaside cliffs of Stevns Klint, a local fossil enthusiast recently discovered something not-so-picturesque: some of the world’s oldest vomit. The pile of 66-million-year-old, fossilized, regurgitated

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was dated to the Cretaceous era. Indigestion, it seems, spans the furthest reaches of time.

“It really is an unusual find,” Jesper Milan, museum inspector at Geomuseum Faxe, said in a translated

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from the Østsjællands Museum.

The lump of

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—more scientifically referred to as ‘regurgitate’—was discovered by Peter Bennicke as he walked along the Baltic Sea cliffside that is well-known for Cretaceous-era finds. In fact, it’s richness of fossils has made it so well-known that it has become a

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After bringing the discovery to Geomuseum Faxe, expert John Jagt concluded that the vomit features at least two different species of sea lilies mixed into one lump after having been eaten by an animal that had trouble digesting the

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“Sea lilies are not a particularly nutritious diet, as they mainly consist of calcareous plates held together by very few soft parts,” Milan said. “But here is an

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, probably some kind of fish, that 66 million years ago ate sea lilies that lived on the bottom of the Cretaceous sea and gulped the skeletal parts back up.”

The sea lily, an underwater species considered a “cousin” of the modern sea star and sea urchin,

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to the Smithsonian, and the organisms’ structures included chalk-like portions that were often

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by the fish that ate them.

While things like vomit and ********** are often viewed as disgusting (or at least icky) by the average individual, substances like this can be treasure troves of environmental and ecological information for scientists. “Such a find provides important new knowledge about the relationship between predators and prey and the food chains in the

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seas,” Milan said.

If viewing fossilized vomit in person is your thing, head to Denmark’s Geomuseum Faxe for quite a sight during a special exhibition. After all, as Milan said (

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to the BBC), “this is the world’s most famous piece of ***** ever.”

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