Even so, this gut material "is a snapshot of what one dinosaur ate on one particular day," said Karen Chin, an associate professor and a curator of paleontology at the University of Colorado Boulder, who was not involved in the research. "We have to avoid assuming that the gut contents are represent
Date: Jun 03, 2020
Category: Science
Source: Google
Fossilized Poo Reveals that Vegetarian Dinosaurs had a Taste for Crabs
The work suggests that big herbivorous dinosaurs sometimes munched on crustaceans, likely to get extra protein and calcium into their bodies before laying eggs, says Karen Chin, a palaeontologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. She and her colleagues report the discovery on September 21 in Sc