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Rare fossil discovery reveals new dinosaur species that specialized in eating fruit
Among the ravenous carnivores and lumbering herbivores that roamed the Cretaceous landscape, another kind of dinosaur was evolving that started to eat something else: the plants that began to flower and produce fruit.
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Paleontologists from Stony Brook University, the Royal Ontario Museum and the North Dakota Geological Survey identified a new small oviraptorosaur, Infernogallus jamesi, as the first known dinosaur that specialized in eating fruit. Analysis of its chewing muscles revealed a unique arrangement previously seen only in modern fruit‑eating parrots, indicating it could mash soft food. The discovery was led by Dr. Gregory Funston of Stony Brook’s Department of Anatomical Sciences and reported in Nature Communications.
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