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Villagers digging in China's rich fossil beds have uncovered the preserved remains of a tiny dinosaur in the belly of a mammal, a startling discovery for scientists who have long believed early mammals couldn't possibly attack and eat a dinosaur.

Scientists say the animal's last meal probably is the first proof that mammals hunted small dinosaurs some 130 million years ago. It contradicts conventional evolutionary theory that early mammals were timid, chipmunk-sized creatures that scurried in the looming shadow of the giant reptiles.

In this case, the mammal was about the size of a large opossum, and the victim was a 13-centimetre "parrot dinosaur."

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...the victim was a 13-centimetre "parrot dinosaur."

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Or small dinosaurs laid their eggs in early mammals . . . .

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Originally posted by Papal_Bull:
Take that dinosaurs!

Man, Stockwell day is going to CRY when he hears about this.

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Warren Kinsella has apologized to him:

http://warrenkinsella.com/musings.htm

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January 12, 2005 - Stockwell Day, come home. All is forgiven. Men and dinosaurs did, in fact, co-exist. (Sort of.)

I therefore owe you a great, big purple apology, fella. Hell, I'd offer to buy you a beer, if you drank something stronger than chocolate milk.

Oops. Sorry about that "Hell" slip. Won't happen again.

God Bless, Stockie..

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Originally posted by Contrarian:

It's not dead, it's resting.

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Don't get too excited by the report that our mammalian precursors from the age of the dinosaurs may have been a lot tougher than once thought. The standard view of the mammals living in the Mesozoic era, some 280 million to 65 million years ago, is that they were mousy little critters, skittering around in the dark, eating bugs and cowering in holes while the real lords of the realm, the dinosaurs, stomped around overhead until they were wiped out by some extinction event.

Now that long-held view of mammalian meekness is being challenged by two nearly complete fossil skeletons, newly discovered in China, of mammals that lived some 130 million years ago. One mammal was the size of a 30-pound dog. The other was smaller, the size of an opossum, but - here's the delicious part - its last meal had been a juvenile dinosaur, as evidenced by tiny dinosaur limbs, fingers and teeth still lodged in the mammal's rib cage eons later. What a turnabout. The supposedly meek mammals of that era actually dined out on the flesh of the reptilian lords of the land.

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