April 5, 2002
Barfosaurus
Two scientists have discovered the world's oldest vomit, and it wasn't in a fraternity taproom.
Peter Doyle, a professor of paleontology at the University of Greenwich, in England, and Jason Wood, a research fellow at the Open University, explained recently that it was a search for fossils that led them to it.
While digging in a 160-million-year-old clay pit some 60 miles north of London last year, they stumbled across shell fragments of tiny marine animals, known as belemnites,
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