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Paleontologists Find Fossilized Gut Contents of Sauropod Dinosaur

Diamantinasaurus matildae, a species of sauropod dinosaur that lived around 94 million years ago (mid-Cretaceous period), ate conifers, seed ferns, and flowering plants, and relied almost entirely on its gut microbes for digestion, according to an analysis of a specimen from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia.

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