goofyfish
10-18-02, 10:56 AM
National Geographic
British scientists have discovered the world's oldest fossilized vomit, believed to have come from a large marine reptile 160 million years ago.
The vomit contains the remains of dozens of belemnites—squid-like shellfish that lived in abundance in the seas around what is now Britain. The belemnites were eaten in great numbers by ichthyosaurs, large marine reptiles (related to land-dwelling dinosaurs) common in the warm seas of the Jurassic era, similar in size and shape to dolphins but with pointed snouts full of sharp teeth.
The technicolor yawn was discovered in a clay quarry in Peterborough by the University of Greenwich's Peter Doyle and Jason Wood of the Open University (Full text here (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0212_020212_dinovomit.html )).Heheh. “Technicolor yawn.” Haven’t heard that since college. Nice to know the author is not too stuffy to use the phrase.
Peace.
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Youth is the first victim of war - the first fruit of peace.
It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man;
it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.-- King Boudewijn I, King of Belgium (1934-1993)
British scientists have discovered the world's oldest fossilized vomit, believed to have come from a large marine reptile 160 million years ago.
The vomit contains the remains of dozens of belemnites—squid-like shellfish that lived in abundance in the seas around what is now Britain. The belemnites were eaten in great numbers by ichthyosaurs, large marine reptiles (related to land-dwelling dinosaurs) common in the warm seas of the Jurassic era, similar in size and shape to dolphins but with pointed snouts full of sharp teeth.
The technicolor yawn was discovered in a clay quarry in Peterborough by the University of Greenwich's Peter Doyle and Jason Wood of the Open University (Full text here (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0212_020212_dinovomit.html )).Heheh. “Technicolor yawn.” Haven’t heard that since college. Nice to know the author is not too stuffy to use the phrase.
Peace.
_____________
Youth is the first victim of war - the first fruit of peace.
It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man;
it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.-- King Boudewijn I, King of Belgium (1934-1993)