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.
Scientists in Germany found the fish with the shell of an ammonite — an extinct group of marine mollusks — stuck inside it. This is the first time a fossilized fish has been discovered with an intact, large ammonite inside its body, Samuel Cooper, a doctoral candidate at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart in Germany, told Live Science.
