Try to wrap your head around this concept: imagine eating something that upset your tummy so badly that you ended up puking it up. And then, scientists 110 million years from now discover the remains of a previously unknown animal species in the fossilized remains of your puke.

That’s basically what just happened, but with a new type of flying dinosaur.

Published in Scientific Reports, paleontologists in Brazil have discovered the remains of a new Cretaceous-era dinosaur within the vomit of a different dinosaur.

Roughly 110 million years ago, some fish-loving predator (likely a spinosaurid) wolfed down a pair of small pterosaurs and four fish. The meal didn’t sit well, so it barfed it all back up. The researchers have named one of those barfed-up creatures Bakiribu waridza, meaning “com

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