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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."
... 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?
I can just see Bollywood doing its own version of Jurassic park now.
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"Behold, Behemoth,
which I made as I made you;
he eats grass like an ox.
Behold, his strength in his loins,
and his power in the muscles of his belly.
He makes his tail stiff like a cedar;
the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
His bones are tubes of bronze,
his limbs like bars of iron.
Some have translated "Behemoth" to be a hippopotamus. Give me a break... go look at a picture of a hippo. They're fat tubs of lard with puny tails. The description here is much closer to a dinosaur (who eats grass). Chapter 41 goes on to talk about the Leviathan, a great dinosaur-like sea creature. Before you say I'm crazy for claiming that dinosaurs and humans once lived together, your question might be answered here or here.