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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."

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  1. Re:Gary Glitter child-fucking in Vietnam by CriminalNerd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is there a point for the parent to post a news report about a pedophile in a dinosaur thread?

  2. Im confused by deft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so, does this mean there were dinosaurs?

    or is this how god planned?
    or perhaps, is this the devil planting stuff so we lose faith in god?

    crap, ima pray to the flying sphaghetti monster for guidance.

    ramen.

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  3. Re:Gary Glitter child-fucking in Vietnam by hdparm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's Gary Glitter, man. Not just a pedofile - dinosaur pedofile.

  4. Re:And in a few million years... by alexjohnc3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Toe harles monkez sund pety stuupid? (Wow... that was pretty pointless...)

  5. Event Horizon by p0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF? Where is Event Horizon?!!

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  6. Re:More support for the Bible by walmartshopper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the context, God is demonstrating His power to Job through the creatures He made. The Leviathan is described in chapter 41 as a creature with airtight "shields" on his back that cannot be pierced by sword or spear. God says of him in v.33, "On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear." Assuming that dinosaurs were present, it makes more sense that God would use a large dinosaur along with Leviathan to display his power, rather than Leviathan with a hippo, or even an elephant.