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...even their own hunting dogs. He lays out the decline of the Mayan empire, the extinction of the Anasazi--whose five-story buildings were the tallest in North America until the 1880s--and the final days of Mangareva, a tiny tropical island where the last inhabitants not only ate one another but dug up buried corpses and ate them...
...Adams dining hall and other dining halls on campus, students ate dinner off of paper plates and drank juice and soda from an emergency supply, according to Adams House Dining Hall General Manager David A. Seley...
...Eliot, Class of 1910, looked out of his soon-to-be-Eliot House window and saw an imposing icescape of Edwardian poetry, sparkling but frozen in its ways, did he shy away? No. After a few whiskeys in the offices of the Harvard Advocate, he sallied forth and ate the oppressive literary sundae whole, producing Four Quartets several hours later before indulging in a quick Rum Raisin nightcap...
That proves that at least one mammal from the age of dinosaurs was carnivorous--and since R. giganticus is a close cousin of R. robustus, it's reasonable to assume that the larger species ate meat as well. Moreover, the size and anatomy of R. giganticus, found in the same fossil beds as its smaller relative, suggest that it was an active predator rather than simply a scavenger. "It had a robust body, with short legs that splay out to the side, similar to a Tasmanian devil," says Meng. "It could walk fast and probably run. It could certainly move...
...clear that mammals did fill some of the niches reserved for larger animals. "It's quite possible," says Anne Weil, a Duke University paleontologist who wrote a commentary accompanying the Nature report, "that they competed with dinosaurs for the same prey." And because they ate dinosaurs, she says, they may even have had an influence on dinosaur evolution. What sort of influence? "We don't know," she says. "That's how it is with the best finds. They leave you with more questions than answers." Those answers may be lurking under the barely scratched surface of Liaoning province. --Reported...