Fossilized vomit reveals 290-million-year-old predator’s diet
Regurgitated material contains the prey of a hunter that lived before the dinosaurs
This illustration depicts the early Permian apex predator Dimetrodon teutonis regurgitating the remains of prey animals. Two smaller prey animals identified in the fossil vomit, Eudibamus cursoris (foreground) and Thuringothyris mahlendorffae (background), are also depicted.
Sophie Fernandez
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