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The Last Meal of This Winged Dinosaur Finally Identified: Paleontologists Make a Rare Discovery in His Stomach

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Microraptor zhaoianus, a small winged dinosaur that evolved at the beginning of the Cretaceous in what is now China, was also attacking mammals, as evidenced by the fossil remains of a leg contained in his stomach. This discovery, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, is the first direct evidence of a dinosaur eating a mammal. [...]
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Microraptor zhaoianus, a small winged dinosaur that evolved at the beginning of the Cretaceous in what is now China, was also attacking mammals, as evidenced by the fossil remains of a leg contained in his stomach. This discovery, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, is the first direct evidence of a dinosaur eating a mammal. [...]

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SciencePost broke the news on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
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