[flevit]

ping?

[atomicpossum]

A vegan diet, and yet-- they're still dead.

[saveliberty]

The truth is stranger than fiction ping

[YouPosting2Me]

Something stinks in this story.

[Pessimist]

So grass is literally older than dinosaur sh!t?

[layman]

the scientific term is coprolites

Well, they might have a scientific term for it, but I bet that when they're in their secret meetings behind closed doors when they think no one can hear them, they call it poop.

[Sacajaweau]

Dragon breath...that's what happens when you smoke grass~!! NOW I understand those dragon pictures!!!

[ClearCase_guy]

Scientists like to make conjectures based on minimal fossil finds. We recently had a thread on dinosaur footprints. From the footprints, scientists knew the diet of the beast, the height of the beast, and the a few other things.

Sometimes that strikes me as over-reaching. The piece that seems most straight-forward is diet. Based on tooth shape, we should know something about what they ate. Then this comes along. Teeth indicate that they would not eat grass, but scat says they did.

Scientists know less than they think.

[DustyMoment]

Whew!! What a relief. I have sweating out the age of grass for . . . . well, actually, this isn't a topic that is very high on my list of important things.

In fact, it doesn't even register.

[CommandoFrank]

Stromberg and paleobotanists from India analyzed sauropod dung and found grasses...

Corn does the same thing to me.

[Dallas59]

didn't have the special kind of teeth needed to grind up abrasive blades.

Why do dogs eat grass?

[MonroeDNA]

Were there bells in the poop, and did it smell like pepper spray?

[tophat9000]

Let see, scientists dated dinosaur fossils and scientists dated grass fossils and decided that two never meet ...but now they find grass in fossils dinosaur crap....so is it now legitimate to question scientists fossils dating and there theory's develop?

The red flag... fossils dating did not discover it's own error (and would still return the same incorrect dates)it was the "grass in the crap" that seems to shown it in error...so then it seems there are some errors in how fossils are dated and needs to be fixed and adjusted along with scientists theory's develop on these old assumptions or at least shouldn't we be open to there assumptions being question?

[Invincibly Ignorant]

did they purchase it by the ounce or kilo?

[r9etb]

The real question is: if grass was common enough to show up in these randomly selected pieces of dinosaur poop, where are the grass fossils in the same strata?

The fact is, however, that the researchers didn't really see grass; they saw microscopic particles of silica called phytoliths, which form inside plant cells in distinctive patterns that essentially act as a signature.

It's possible that they're wrong about the signatures.