RE: dinosaurs did eat grass

[Ronald Orenstein <ron.orenstein@rogers.com>]

At 09:10 PM 17/11/2005, Jeff Hecht wrote:
> The phytoliths themselves are minerals in grass that are hard on 
> dentition, although it's not clear if they were as abundant in the 
> early grasses. They are present in reasonable quantities in the 
> coprolite. There were late Cretaceous mammals, the gondwanatherians, 
> which had evolved high-crowned teeth the could be explained by their 
> habit of eating grasses.

True enough, though of course it is only speculation that grasses are 
what these things were eating.  I admit that it does seem reasonable!


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