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Published online 4 May 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050502-3
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Dinosaur embraced vegetarianism
Utah discovery reveals how a predator switched to eat greens.
Fossil-hunters working in the dusty Utah desert have caught a dinosaur in the act of going vegetarian. The newly discovered species, which lived about 130 million years ago, displays the hallmarks of adapting to a leafy diet.
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