NY Times editorial: science

from 14-Jan-2005
"One mammal was the size of a 30-pound dog. The other was smaller, the size of an opossum, but - here's the delicious part - its last meal had been a juvenile dinosaur, as evidenced by tiny dinosaur limbs, fingers and teeth still lodged in the mammal's rib cage eons later. What a turnabout. The supposedly meek mammals of that era actually dined out on the flesh of the reptilian lords of the land.

But before we hoist ourselves up the ancient food chain, it is worth noting that the victim was a teeny tiny baby, only five inches long, and a plant eater at that."

Yeah, and I *was* just about to get all snobby about my place in the food chain, duh.