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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

During the period fish and sharks would eat sea lilies, which are hard to digest meaning they would then "regurgitate all the chalk bits", he explained.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Party foul forever

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would’ve thought vomit would biodegrade before it could fossilize

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They vomited chalk/calcium carbonate from marine invertebrates.