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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."
like modern beavers chew on today.
:(
Nobody cares about the outdated beavers
They'll find out that us hairless monkeys smoked grass!
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This discovery was made when scientists found pieces of grass in fossilized dinosaur dung (coprolites)
Man, and I thought I had it tought digging through million year old crap (code) at work. I never imagined that would literally be someone's job >_>
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Even the dinosaurs in India are vegetarian!
(well, as an Indian who happens to be vegetarian, I reserve the right to make such obviously ridiculous jokes)
It's hard to get grass to jump into a tar pit.
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Millions of years from now they'll be researching Redneckus Fundamentalus Americanus. They'll discover that they died out because literally, they were born with shit for brains.
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Obviously the grass didn't adapt well enough if it was inside the belly of the Dinosaur!
Now grass that defends itself! There's an adaptation!