Newly discovered fossils suggest giant marine dinosaur came to coastline to vomit

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Newly discovered fossils have suggested that a giant marine dinosaur came to the coastline to throw up.Plesiosaurs, the long-necked marine reptiles that patrolled Jurassic oceans, apparently swam towards shallower coastal waters for the specific purpose of vomiting up the indigestible remains of their prey.A study published today in the journal Geological Magazine was based on more than twenty lumps of fossilised vomit recovered from drill cores taken roughly 30 miles off the Norwegian coast.The fossils were identified by Dr Dirk Knaust, a palaeontologist employed by the Norwegian energy company Equinor ASA, who came across the specimens while logging core samples extracted from North Sea wells.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The material was gathered during work on a subsea carbon dioxide storage site close to the Troll gas and oil field.During the Jurassic period, the site where the pellets were unearthed would have been a river delta rather than open sea, pointing to a deliberate...

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