Sauropod's Gut Contents Offer First Direct Proof of Dinosaur Diet

First Fossil Evidence That Sauropods Were Herbivores Supports a Widespread Assumption About the Long-Necked Dinosaurs

A recent discovery of a dinosaur’s preserved gut contents offers the first direct proof that sauropods were plant-eaters

What a dinosaur ate 100 million years ago—Preserved in a fossilized time capsule

A prehistoric digestive time capsule has been unearthed in Australia: plant fossils found inside a sauropod dinosaur offer the first definitive glimpse into what these giant creatures actually ate. The remarkably preserved gut contents reveal that sauropods were massive, indiscriminate plant-eaters who swallowed leaves, conifer shoots, and even flowering plants without chewing relying on their gut microbes to break it all down.

What and how did the biggest dinosaurs eat? First fossilised sauropod guts found in Australia

Palaeontologists in Australia have uncovered the first stomach contents of a sauropod giving insights into the diets of the largest land animals of all time. Diamantinasaurus matildae is a sauropod which has been found in the sheep-grazing country around Winton in the Australian state Queensland. Several Diamantinasaurus specimens have been found over recent years dating to the middle of  the Cretaceous period which lasted 145 to 66 million year…

Saurpod Dinosaur’s Last Meal Perfectly Preserved for 95 Million Years Shows What They Really Ate

Sauropods were the largest land-living animals of all time. Finding the traces of a sauropod’s last meal is nothing short of extraordinary.

Secrets of sauropod dinosaur revealed by fossilised stomach find

Since the late 19th century, sauropod dinosaurs have been almost universally regarded as herbivores, despite no evidence