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Their vomited remains were preserved as a fossil, which in November was found by an amateur fossil hunter off the Cliffs of Stevns in eastern Denmark. “It was only when experts got their hands ...

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The prehistoric patch of puke sat there long enough to turn into a fossil — languishing in obscurity until an amateur sleuth made the gross and engrossing discovery last November. The putrid ...

And then the vomit was lost to the mists of time. Until last November, when an amateur fossil hunter, Peter Bennicke, split a piece of chalk and discovered it. For decorum’s sake, we had now ...