This Dinosaur Ate Mammals, But They Were Small Ones like Mice 

Dinosaurs ate mammals; this has been proved for the first time through paleontological evidence by the scientists of Britain. But it was not like the Jurassic Park movie. This dinosaur ate mice like small mammals. In preserved fossil of a small feathered dinosaur named Microraptor, a foot of a small mammal was found inside its ribcage. This was confirmed as a case of a dinosaur eating a mammal and was documented in new research conducted by Dr. David Hone of the Queen Mary University of London. This finding has been published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Microraptor was a tiny, feathered dinosaur that roamed the ancient jungles of what is now known as China about 120 million years ago. It was roughly like that of a crow in size. It glided from tree to tree in search of small animals for food.

This Microraptor fossil was first studied in 2000. But Professor Hans Larsson of McGill University in Montreal found the foot of an ancient mammal inside the preserved ribs of this small dinosaur.

The foot of the extinct mammal eaten by the Microraptor dinosaur hints that it was around the size of a mouse. Analysis of its bones suggests that it lived on the ground and wasn’t very good at climbing.

In other Microraptor fossils, scientists have found them to have eaten birds, lizards, and fish. Now it is known that they also this small flying dinosaur also ate mammals.

Microraptor was hunting everything from the birds in trees to the mice on land to the fish in water. your pond.”