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Rare fossil discovery reveals new dinosaur species that specialized in eating fruit

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Rare fossil discovery reveals new dinosaur species that specialized in eating fruit

Among the ravenous carnivores and lumbering herbivores that roamed the Cretaceous landscape, another kind of dinosaur was evolving that started to eat something else: the plants that began to flower and produce fruit. The discovery by paleontologists from Stony Brook University, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the North Dakota Geological Survey reveals that a new species, Infernogallus jamesi—a…

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