Tiny dinosaur on verge of swearing off meat
Date: 2008-10-24
A rare juvenile skull of a 190 million-year-old dinosaur may help explain when an important group of plant eaters branched off from carnivorous cousins, U.S. and British researchers said on Thursday.
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