Mammals may have snacked on dinosaurs after all!
New fossil finds in China suggest that, unlike the commonly held perception that dinosaurs snacked on mammals we discussed in chapter 3, some mammals may have returned the favor and snacked on larger dinosaurs! Here's the article: https://apnews.com/article/mammals-eating-dinosaurs-cretaceous-af0ccd6f491e01ec779753b03568c61c, and here's the report in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37545-8.
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