Ask the Experts: Fossils Show Dinosaurs Ate Birds

For some time Palaeontologists have suspected that dinosaurs may have eaten birds.

Now, after the recent findings of Dr Jingmai O’Connor and her team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, who discovered a bird skeleton within the fossil of a dinosaur, these theories have been confirmed.

In a recent paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, lead author Dr O’Connor explained the findings and the rarity of a discovery that proves what dinosaurs ate:

“Preserved indicators of diet are extremely rare in the fossil record; even more so is unequivocal direct evidence for predator–prey relationships.”

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