Gobi Desert Yield New Species of Nut-Cracking Dinosaur
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 08:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
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.
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