Hundreds of millions of years ago, a carnivorous critter gorged on a feast of prehistoric amphibians – and puked up its meal afterward.
Now, paleontologists have unearthed the regurgitation and published their findings of the ancient upchuck.
This swath of sedimentary rocks that stretches across the Western United States is a hotbed for fossils dating to the late Jurassic period . So, when a team that included researchers from the Utah Geological Survey stumbled upon the"compact little pile" of retched remains measuring no more than one-third of a square inch , they knew they had found something special, the scientists reported in a study, published Aug.
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