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Fossil skull shows a small Cretaceous dinosaur chewed fruit like a parrot

Palaeontologists have described a new dinosaur, Infernogallus jamesi, whose skull was adapted for processing fruit. The animal, a small toothless oviraptorosaur, had a jaw muscle arrangement otherwise seen among living birds only in fruit-eating parrots. The authors, from Stony Brook University, the Royal Ontario Mu…

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