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Predecessor of dinosaurs was an opportunistic feeder, and may not have been as dismayed by throwing up as we are

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Almost 300 million years ago, an animal threw up in Thuringia. Now analysis of the fossil ejecta from the Early Permian period identified in the Bromacker formation, Germany shows us what this early animal had for lunch, millions of years before the first dinosaur arose to its scaly feet.