The Cretaceous world seems to have been a perilous place to scratch out an existence, a land of eat-or-be-eaten.
are evidence of that. A volcanic flow could have just caught this unlucky mammal while trying for a meal.However, closer inspection by a team led by paleontologist Gang Han of the Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology in China revealed that this particular mammal did not appear to be scavenging a carcass.
The bones of the Psittacosaur are neatly in place, with none of the bite marks expected of scavenging. Moreover, the way the two animals are entangled would be unlikely if scavenging was taking place. Nor, probably, would the mammal be on top if the dinosaur was the attacker.An illustration depicting how the two animals may have looked, locked in combat.
We know that, in modern times, smaller, aggressive animals can take down larger prey. Pack animals, such as lions or wolves, work together in that regard, but some small lone predators have a
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