The scale bar equals 10 centimetres. (Gang Han) A badger-like mammal died while chomping into the ribs of a hapless horned plant-eating dinosaur struggling to escape more than 100 million years ago.

This illustration provided by the Canadian Museum of Nature shows a reconstruction of a dinosaur being attacked by a mammal 125 million years ago. Michael W. Skrepnick/The Associated Press ...

The fossil, described Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports, shows two creatures from around 125 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period.

Another fossil found in the 1970s in Mongolia shows two dinosaurs - predator Velociraptor and plant-eater Protoceratops - fighting about 80 million years ago before being buried alive, perhaps in ...

Dinosaur fossils are found throughout the world, but an "exceptionally rare" discovery sheds light on what type of animals a dinosaur fed on – mammals. In the early 2000s, the fossil of a Microraptor ...

At first, the paleontologists thought the fossils belonged to a group of metatherians -- or marsupial-like mammals -- from the Cretaceous period that survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, the ...

Scientists have discovered two new feathered dinosaur species in northeastern China hidden in 125-million-year-old fossils. The find sheds more light on the diversity of two-legged theropod ...

D'Alba said that future research could look at how mammals got more colourful coats — after a major extinction event, about 66 million years ago, killed off dinosaurs, their major predators.

(Gang Han/Canadian Museum of Nature via AP) The fossil, described Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports, shows two creatures from around 125 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period.

The unusual fossil from China suggests some early mammals may have hunted down dinosaur meat for dinner. The fossil shows a badger-like creature chomping down on a beaky dinosaur three times its size.

United States Mammals may have hunted down dinosaurs for dinner, rare fossil suggests NEW YORK (AP) — An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner.