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This fossilized vomit is older than the dinosaurs

这块化石化的呕吐物比恐龙还要古老

A paleontological illustration showing a large lizard-like animal with a tall sail on its back appearing to vomit. Also pictured are two smaller reptiles, one bright blue and the other a greenish brown.

A paleontological illustration showing a large lizard-like animal with a tall sail on its back appearing to vomit. Also pictured are two smaller reptiles, one bright blue and the other a greenish brown.

2026-02-18  536  中等
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Found in 2021, the specimen comes from a 290-million-year-old German site called Bromacker. Over a century of excavation, paleontologists have glimpsed a valley full of conifers that were apparently teeming with vegetarians, says Amy Henrici, a retired Carnegie Museum of Natural History paleontology collection manager, who was not involved in the new research.

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