Re: dinosaurs did eat grass

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>:

> 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

"Recognising that some of the phytoliths had distinctive shapes found only in
grasses "was a complete shock", says Caroline Strömberg, a phytolith 
specialist
at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. She told New Scientist
that the grasses the dinosaurs ate were herbaceous forest plants perhaps up to
several metres tall."

So, something more like bamboo?

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan