Dinosaurs may have been nature's first fruit lovers

Dinosaurs may have been nature's first fruit lovers

New fossil evidence suggests flowering plants developed larger fruits millions of years earlier than previously believed, challenging assumptions about plant evolution and revealing dinosaurs may have helped spread seeds before extinction.Scientific illustration reconstruction of a Late Cretaceous forest, including a dinosaur eating fruit. Credit: Brian Engh.In a new study published in the journal Science, researchers challenged the long-held id…