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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.