Ancient Snakes Ate Dinosaur Babies
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 11:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A 3.5-metre-long snake that lived 67 million years ago made a habit of eating dinosaur hatchlings as they first scrambled out of their eggs, say paleontologists writing in PLoS Biology. The conclusion is based on the discovery in India of a nearly complete fossilized skeleton of the primitive snake Sanajeh indicus coiled inside a dinosaur nest. read more