Utah fossil uncovers new ancient animal behavior: panic puking.
was found by John Foster, museum curator at the Utah Field House of Natural History. Foster and Kirklandscouting sites east of Bears Ears National Monument in 2016 when they came upon what their survey notes describe as the “Jurassic Salad Bar” site.
At the “Salad Bar” site, researchers “literally could peel leaves of extinct plants right off the rock,” Kirkland said. They also found fossilized crayfish, giant water bugs and fish scales — and, the fossilized fish puke. “Having them mixed, it became more likely this is from a frog-salamander eater,” Kirkland said. “Nothing else like that was found at this time — and it’s a real important, sensitive site, and we hope to get a lot more out of it, but this was the only thing like it we found. Pretty extraordinary.”
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