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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[Osmosis_Garett]

... dinosaurs will also have drank water from lakes!

Is this actually some kind of valuable discovery? Don't pretty much all species eat grass in one form or another?

Bollywood's Jurassic park

[axonis]

I can just see Bollywood doing its own version of Jurassic park now.