The fossil was hidden in a museum drawer for decades before researchers reexamined it to uncover a story about prehistoric life — and death.
A dinosaur-era fish appears to have died after getting eyes too big for its stomach and ingesting a giant shell, researchers have found. The fish may have then choked to death on it, or the shell tore its stomach as it swallowed, the team said.
The fossil was first dug up near Stuttgart in 1977 and stored in a museum drawer until researchers recently took a closer look and pieced together how this prehistoric fish died. But hidden among those titanic animals was an array of smaller marine life, including Pachycormus macropterus — a sleek, tuna-like fish about 3 feet long. Paleontologists believe that Pachycormus fish ate soft foods like squids, Cooper said. But one day, one fish decided to change things up.
"I suppose it's equivalent of you and I swallowing a small dinner plate," Cooper said. He speculates that the fish may have confused the shell for a more edible bit of food, or accidentally swallowed the shell while eating around it.
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