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Fossil Offers First Known Evidence of Pterosaur Herbivory


Paleotologists from China and Brazil say they have found a total of 320 phytoliths -- microscopic, rigid bodies made of mineral deposits that form inside plant cells -- inside the fossilized stomach of a pterosaur species called Sinopterus atavismus.

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