[Rockhounds] Plant-eating Dinosaurs Consumed Crustaceans - Cretaceous, Utah

Paul etchplain at att.net
Sat Sep 23 08:29:30 PDT 2017


Dinosaur dung reveals giant plant-eaters ate meat
By Ben Guarino, Washington Post, Sept. 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/09/22/dinosaur-dung-reveals-giant-plant-eaters-ate-meat/

'Vegetarian' Dinos Made Exception for Shellfish,
Poop Study Shows By Laura Geggel, September 21, 2017
https://www.livescience.com/60470-poop-reveals-vegetarian-dinosaurs-ate-shellfish.html

The open access paper is:

Chin, Karen, Rodney M. Feldmann and Jessica N. Tashman,
2017, Consumption of crustaceans by megaherbivorous
dinosaurs: dietary flexibility and dinosaur life history strategies
Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 11163(2017)
doi:10.1038/s41598-017-11538-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11538-w

Yours,

Paul H.





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