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Grass Grazing In Dinosaurs Confirmed
longhawn writes "Reuters AlertNet reports that a team of researchers found evidence in India that dinosaurs ate grass. This discovery was made when scientists found pieces of grass in fossilized dinosaur dung (coprolites). Prior to this finding, scientists did not even know that grass existed at that time." From the article: "Few scientists had ever thought that dinosaurs grazed, because there was no evidence that grasses existed that long ago. They believed that the grinding teeth found in some dinosaur fossils were used for munching other plant matter, perhaps trees, like modern beavers chew on today."
I thought everything in india ate dirt ;)
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the Amazing Grass Eating Dinosaur theory!
We found one blade of grass. This blade of grass has sucessfully thrown out all the theories we previously had about dinosaurs. But don't criticize our new theories. If you do, you are an evil, anti-science Republican idiot. Worship our doctrine! Worship us!
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Ok, I'll bite.
Firstly there is no reference in the Bible to there being no Dinosaurs, the reason that the word Dinosaur does not appear in the bible is that the word was actually invented after the new king james version of the bible was writen. So as far as the Bible tells there could easily have been dinosaurs, and from the fossils it is undeniable that they did exist.
But what happened to them?? Well basically they died out, they became extinct as alot of other animals have done and continue to do. Think about it, these were some large vegeterian animals so a whole lot of them could not exist at once or they would eat all their food, and since they were large they would also have been a sought after aminal to hunt as they would have alot of meat
. And what caused there to be a large number of fossils? This is explained in Genesis from Noah's flood, all the dinosaurs that could not swim would have perished and been covered by a large amount of silt and dirt.
yea this is nothing new...pretty much everything in India eats grass at some point in it's life.didn't need a team of scientists going thru fossilized shit to come up with this...
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Wow. Really important "breakthrough".
I can't believe the "science" fan bois on here make fun of the fundie dorks. You're all about as equally useful.
Further evidence that, just as darwin said just before he died, evolution is false. I like the cleverly worded article though, as to be careful not to bash on the integrity of the theory.