[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.

[Gorzaloon]

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.

Cats and dogs, both obligate carnivores, sometimes eat grass, for whatever reason.

Cats eat housplants to be mean.

We grew catnip, they ignored it and ate everything else.

[Gorzaloon]

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.

Cats and dogs, both obligate carnivores, sometimes eat grass, for whatever reason.

Cats eat housplants to be mean.

We grew catnip, they ignored it and ate everything else.

[CommandoFrank]

Teeth indicate that they would not eat grass, but scat says they did.

I've got plenty of stones that came out of dino stomachs that were used to grind food. Like birds, they had rocks do some of the digesetive work.

These stones look like they were tumbled round and polished. They are very easy to find in Utah.

[Lawgvr1955]

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.

Sounds like the crime lab tech on Hawaii Five-O. That guy could reconstruct the whole crime from a grain of sand.

[TX Bluebonnet]

Scientists know less than they think.

Don't tell them that! Scientists (and doctors) pretend to be impartial, but most are very defensive of their postulations and fall in love with their favorite theories. But they'll be the first to criticize religion for those very things.

[Jo Nuvark]

If the animal the dinosaur ate, just ate grass...
then wouldn't the poop have grass in it?

[MeanWestTexan]

Or maybe they ate something that just ate grass!