Fossil Shows Mammal Ate Baby Dinosaur

[Kadie]

Fossil Shows Mammal Ate Baby Dinosaur

POSTED: 4:02 pm EST January 13, 2005

NEW YORK -- It's the paleontological version of "man bites dog": Mammal bites dinosaur.

A 130-million-year-old fossil of a mammal unearthed in northeastern China two years ago has the clear remains of a baby dinosaur in its stomach.

Paleontologist Meng Jin of the American Museum of Natural History said the discovery could change the way scientists look at the relationship of dinosaurs and mammals.

Until now, it was believed dinosaurs hunted small, timid mammals. This is the first evidence the hunt went both ways.

http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/4080424/detail.html

[qnr]

1. First evidence? hmmmm. well, ok on the "evidence" bit, but I've

known for years (through reading the studies of others, of course) that nocturnal mammals hunted small/immature dinosaurs and dinosaur eggs.

[chelsea0011]

2. Imagine if futurists dug up someone who died right after Fear Factor

I figure thousands of years from now some future scientists will be cutting into millions of us after some cataclysm wipes us most of us. So watch what you eat.