In the ancient seabed beneath what is now inland Queensland, a single fossil has preserved one of nature's most elemental truths: that to eat is also to be eaten. Scientists have identified a 100-million-year-old ichthyosaur bearing the stomach contents of a pterosaur and the bite marks of a giant pliosaur, offering a rare, three-tiered glimpse into the predatory hierarchies of the Cretaceous Eromanga Sea. The find, made possible by a chance fossicking trip in 2019 and confirmed through cutting-edge neutron imaging, reminds us that the deep past is not silent — it speaks, if we know how to lis