Detect bird's bones in dinosaur belly

Until now, scientists argued much about prehistoric dinosaur food, now there is the first evidence that it eats birds.

Through the results of the initial study, paleontologists determined that the food of dinosaurs was birds after the fossil was discovered in the stomach of dinosaurs, the bird skeleton was almost intact.

Detecting dinosaur fossils with a bird
in the stomach of dinosaurs. (Photo: Newscientist)

Jingmai O'Connor and colleagues at the Chinese Institute of Scientific Research determined that the intact skeleton of the first primitive bird Microraptor is located in the stomach of carnivorous dinosaurs.

The bird-eating dinosaur called Enantiornithes lives in the Cretaceous eating prey by swallowing and its favorite dish is bird. The fossilized bird bones are nearly intact in the belly of the dinosaurs, showing that the dinosaurs' way of eating is to swallow the entire bird into the body.

According to O'Connor, the fossil bone fossil, which is nearly intact in the belly of dinosaurs, provides not only clear evidence and information about the existence of the first ancient bird and how does the Enantiornithe dinosaur eat it. Whichever, but also provides details where they hunt on the canopy.

The Microraptor is a perch, has four wings and changes direction quickly when attacked by prey.

Previously, paleontologists questioned for a long time whether the bird was one of the prehistoric dinosaur diets.

'We need to investigate and study even more, to draw a final conclusion as to whether the Enantiornithe carnivorous dinosaur is one of the tree animals like parrots or woodpeckers. However, we do not exclude the possibility that species often move on the ground , " Newscientist quoted Luis Chiappe working at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum.