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These early mammals were predators, feeding on young psittacosaurs (picture)
From: Xinhuanet: Scientists find dinosaur-eating mammal
Chinese scientists discovered a fossilized dinosaur-eating mammal in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, according to a report published Thursday.
The fossilized mammal, repenomamus robustus, lived in the Mesozoic era. The find revealed that some large-sized mammals living in that era may be carnivorous and brave enough to compete with dinosaurs for food and living space.
Undigested bones, including teeth and limbs, of a small dinosaur were found in its stomach, said Li, a CAS researcher. Theunbroken joints meant that the mammal tore and gobbled the prey, almost without biting and chewing
The new finds challenge the long-held view and proved that someprimitive mammals were larger than small-sized dinosaurs.
Originally posted by CMAN
this is becoming an interesting diiscusiion this is what i suspect ended the reign of the dinos in the first place.....if u know about biology ud know that 65 million years ago a huge eevnt caused the extinction of the dinos. now if it were a metoer the dust would have blocked out the sun...so basicly the mammels would have eatin the slower moving dinos...
Originally posted by instar
Ok, but if you block out the sun for a great time, all plant matter dies, so mammals should have died out too, since the entire food chain is disrupted no?
Originally posted by CMAN
mamels bak then were mostly carnivores and the sun wasent completly blocked out so that the world would be in gulphed in darkness....and plus the mamels were mostly carnivores and would just have surivied of both each other and the dead dinos that scateered the land....
Originally posted by Hellmutt
Originally posted by instar
Ok, but if you block out the sun for a great time, all plant matter dies, so mammals should have died out too, since the entire food chain is disrupted no?
Yes, and guess what´s on the menu after the next big global event disaster? Lots of water everywhere. You better start getting used to eat a lot of fish...