Sands Of Gobi Desert Yield New Species Of Nut-cracking Dinosaur
Published June 17, 2009 by Science Daily
Plants or meat: that’s about all that fossils ever tell paleontologists about a dinosaur’s diet. But the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard stones indicate that the animal fed on nuts and/or seeds. These characteristics present the first solid evidence of nut-eating in any dinosaur.
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