Re: dinosaurs did eat grass

[Rodlox R <rodlox@hotmail.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?

maybe like the pampas grass of South America these days...which can be an 
ornamental plant for gardeners.

that's just my guess, based on conversation here.