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Fossilized puke from before the dinosaurs contains 41 tiny bones

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 23, 2026
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Regurgitite (From: Early Permian terrestrial apex predator regurgitalite indicates opportunistic feeding behaviour)

Forty-one tiny bones from three different species, jumbled together in a single clump and preserved in stone for 290 million years. That’s the contents of the world’s oldest known terrestrial regurgitalite — science-talk for fossilized puke…

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