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Re: dinosaurs did eat grass




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.