Experts say the discovery will help them understand what animals were eating during the Cretaceous period.
  • @200okEnglish
    5•2 days ago

    It’s fish vomit

    • @NoSpotOfGroundEnglish
      4•2 days ago

      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.

  • @jqubedEnglish
    3•2 days ago

    I would’ve thought vomit would biodegrade before it could fossilize

    • The OctonautEnglish
      2•2 days ago

      They vomited chalk/calcium carbonate from marine invertebrates.