What dinosaurs ate, and how they ate it, is an endless source of fascination. Whether it’s the predatory habits of Tyrannosaurus rex or how sauropods managed to horf down enough food to fuel their ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. An ancient, badger-like animal had no fear taking down a larger dinosaur. A new paper in Scientific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration showing Repenomamus robustus as it attacks Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis moments before a volcanic debris flow buries ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While there is little doubt that many a Mesozoic mammal became a meal for a dinosaur, it may come as a surprise to learn that some mammals also dined on dinos. A dramatic fossil ...

During the Cretaceous period 125 million years ago, a ravenous Repenomamus, an ancient mammal the size of an opossum, pounced on an unsuspecting Psittacosaurus—an herbivorous dinosaur more than three ...

Dr Jordan Mallon, a paleobiologist with the Canadian Museum of Nature and a co-author of the study, said the two animals are locked in a “mortal combat, intimately intertwined”. (Image: CANADIAN ...

It’s like a man-bites-dog story from prehistoric times, although researchers had to take steps to verify that it was not a forgery. By Kate Golembiewski The work of a paleontologist is often like ...

About 125 million years ago, a young mammal about the size of a possum bit down on the side of a beaked dinosaur nearly three times its size. The animals died like that, entangled and at odds with ...

"Here, we have good evidence for a smaller mammal preying on a larger dinosaur, which is not something we would have guessed without this fossil," Mallon added. While there is little doubt that many a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new fossil shows a badger-like mammal biting into a dinosaur. The mammal was significantly smaller than the dinosaur and may ...