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RE: dinosaurs did eat grass

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Jeff Hecht
>
> A paper in this week's Science reports the latest Cretaceous titanosaurs were 
> eating grass. I didn't believe it at first
> either, but here's what I found
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8336

I haven't seen the paper itself yet (although maybe up online now), but the 
brief reports in Nature's online news section and BBC's
news site show a pretty convincing phytolith.

Now if we can extend the grasses back to the Early Cretaceous (at least in 
western Gondwana) we might FINALLY make sense of
Nigersaurus and the rebbachisaurids in general: white rhino analogues...

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