Unbelievable facts
While some scientists are collecting evidence that modern birds are former dinosaurs, while others are actively ridiculing this view, others have recently found out that predatory dinosaurs, even if they later evolved into birds, were not averse to eating the meat of the very first birds.
In principle, this is not surprising, since a predator is always a predator — be it a bird, fish or mammals. However, the find is interesting because it is one of the first to demonstrate the adaptation of terrestrial animals to catch their first feathered counterparts for food.
Newly discovered fossils, according to Canadian paleontologists, indicate that feather-covered but wingless dinosaurs may have captured and devoured smaller feather-covered counterparts.
A team of scientists from the University of Alberta has discovered the remains of as many as three flying dinosaurs in the belly of Sinocaliopteryx from the order of lizard dinosaurs. This poultry lover was no more than two meters in length, which is comparable to the size of large individuals of modern wolves.
Sinocaliopteryx ate three confuciusornis, one of the first birds whose skeleton and muscles only remotely resembled the skeleton and muscles of modern birds. Obviously, the first birds could not quickly get off the ground and stay in the air for a long time, which means that they often fell “on the table” not only for Sinocaliopteryx, but also for other predators.
One of the paleontologists at the university mentioned that the predator found did not have wings; moreover, sinocaliopteryx must have been a very voracious creature, as long as it was in its stomach as many as three confuciusornis were found.