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Dinosaur Extinction Indirectly Shaped Evolution of Our Fruit-Eating Ancestors, Researchers Say


Plant-eating sauropod dinosaurs were ecosystems engineers, profoundly changing their environments by knocking down trees and eating high volumes of vegetation.

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