Re: dinosaurs did eat grass

[Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>]

At 5:32 PM -0500 11/17/05, Nick Pharris wrote:
>
>"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?
>

The grass experts say it definitely wasn't bamboo, but they aren't sure what it 
is. 
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