Chew? The huge Titanosaurs were HAP-Slik-Wegdinos

Chewing well was not there for the huge dinosaurus Diamondinasaurus Matildae. Australian paleontologists from the analysis of the stomach contents of a fossil of this animal that lived in Australia about 100 million years ago. There were clearly recognizable prints of conifer needles, leaves and fruiting bodies of seed fern. They must have been torn or bitten off and swallowed in their entirety. This dino must have been a little picky gluate, that of every random plant he encountered kicked the juicy peaks.

‘Judy’ called the researchers the probably eleven -meter -long young diamondinasaurus that they erupt in the northeast of Australia.

The find of a petrified gastrointestinal content, a so-called ‘Cololiet’, is very rare. Previously, only three cololites from dinosaurs were found, but they were of other species, in the family of the Stegosaurus and the Ankylosaurus. Now such a fossil has been discovered for the first time in the family of the Titanosaurs, Write the researchers in Current Biology.

The find confirms suspicion That titanosaurs do not chew. They deduced that from the physique: huge body, relatively small head. Now there is direct evidence.

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