Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.
The scientific term for fossilized vomit is regurgitalite. Surprisingly, the timeless throw up is far from the oldest out there — Dr. Milàn said that Germany, for example, has laid claim to an even ...
That was life - and death - in the Cretaceous Period in the Canadian province of ... "There is no sign of healing, so the wound either happened at the time of death during an attack or after ...
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near ... Texas at Austin and several colleagues. At that time, it was proposed as an early member of modern ...
According to a new publication in the Journal of Paleontology, a juvenile pterosaur vertebrae fossil, commonly known as a ...
In the Cretaceous period, a shark or another kind of fish found sea lilies less than digestible. What you might expect ...
Modern oceans, for comparison, max out at trophic level five or six, represented by apex predators like orcas, sperm whales, and great white sharks.
Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near ... that lived in Antarctica at around the same time Tyrannosaurus rex dominated North America.The study ...