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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hemalsilva" data-source="post: 7020430" data-attributes="member: 7335"><img src="http://s.ngeo.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/132/cache/snake-eating-dinosaur-babies-fossil_13242_600x450.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Dinosaur Nest, With VisitorPhotograph courtesy Wilson et al, PLoS BiologyThese chunks of rock extracted from India's Gujarat Province contain the bones of the 11.5-foot (3.5-meter) snake and the sauropod hatchling that the serpent failed to eat before both were killed. Three unhatched sauropod eggs were also buried.Scientists have dubbed the new species of snake Sanejeh indicus, or "ancient-gaped one from India." Young dinosaurs were also vulnerable to attack by egg-snatching dinosaurs and mammals as well as snakes, scientists believe."It's a rough life if you're a juicy little dinosaur," said Wilson, whose work was funded in part by a grant from the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.)(Related: "Venomous Dinosaur Discovered—Shocked Prey Like Snake?")Published March 1, 2010</blockquote>

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