Hadrosaur Eating Mystery Solved - They Simply Ate Unlike Anything Else
Monday, June 29, 2009 - 18:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Microscopic analysis of scratches on dinosaur teeth may have helped scientists unravel an ancient riddle of what a major group of dinosaurs - the Hadrosaurs - ate and exactly how they did it. A study led by the University of Leicester has found evidence that the duck-billed dinosaurs called Hadrosaurs had a unique way of eating, unlike any living creature today. Working with researchers from the Natural History Museum, the study used a new approach to analyze the feeding mechanisms of dinosaurs and understand their place in the ecosystems of tens of millions of years ago. read more
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