Early mammals seem to have scavenged on gigantic sauropod dinosaurs Getty Images/Stocktrek Images
The first mammals were small and elusive, but that didn鈥檛 stop them chowing down on dinosaur meat. A bone fragment from a giant dinosaur has bite marks that could only have been made by small mammals, which probably scavenged the carcass.
鈥淭his is the earliest direct evidence for mammalian feeding behaviour,鈥 says Felix Augustin at the Eberhard Karls University of T眉bingen in Germany.
The bone fragment came from the long neck of a sauropod dinosaur, which lived in what is now China in the late…
