#sauropods — Public Fediverse posts

We’ve Found #Sauropod Stomach Contents For The First Time, Revealing They Had Terrible Manners
#Sauropods as a group span around 130 million years of time, but this one came from the Winton Formation of Queensland in #Australia, home to animals that lived during the mid-Cretaceous. It appears that they were walking around with “gastric furnaces” that could break down food thanks to #fermentation and #microbes in the gut – no chewing required.
https://www.iflscience.com/world-first-fossil-discovery-of-sauropod-stomach-contents-reveals-they-didnt-chew-their-food-79536
https://archive.ph/q1n6w