Around 120 million years ago, four-winged dinosaurs roughly the size of crows called Microraptors stalked the ancient woodlands of what is now China.
While researchers have studied severalspecimens, there's still a lot we don't know about these feathered bird-like creatures – including what and how they ate.
Now an incredibly rare fossil has revealed the preserved final meal of one individual: and unexpectedly, it was a mammal.from McGill University in Canada, who found the fossil while looking through samples at museum collections in China.Microraptor"These finds are the only solid evidence we have about the food consumption of these long extinct animals – and they are exceptionally rare,"
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