Tiny mammals once scavenged meat from giant dinosaur carcasses

By Michael Marshall

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The first mammals had been small and elusive, but that didn’t discontinuance them chowing down on dinosaur meat. A bone fragment from a vast dinosaur has bite marks that can even finest had been made by small mammals, which potentially scavenged the carcass.

“Here’s the earliest convey proof for mammalian feeding behaviour,” says Felix Augustin of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Germany.

The bone fragment came from the long neck of a vast sauropod dinosaur, which lived in what’s now China within the …