Snake preyed on baby dinosaurs

Snake preyed on baby dinosaurs

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An ancient snake has been caught in the act - about to eat a baby dinosaur - 67 million years ago.

An extraordinary fossil from India reveals the 3.5-metre predator was coiled around a broken egg in a dinosaur nest.

Next to it was its prey: a newly hatched titanosaur about 50 centimetres long, and two other eggs.

Dhananjay Mohabey, of the Geological Survey of India, who found the fossils, said the activity of the hatchling breaking out of its egg may have attracted the snake to the nest. ''It was such a thrill to discover such a portentous moment frozen in time,'' he said.

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I found this find to be extremely interesting . At one stage one school of thought had it that the dinosaurs went extinct because reptiles stole there eggs . While I wouldn't conclude that this find proves such a theory it does give a rare gimps into a long by gone age . As to my opinion as to why the dinosaurs went extinct more due a mass extinction then any meteor.

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