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A fossilized gut content of a long-necked sauropod dinosaur provides the first direct evidence that these dinosaurs were herbivores, containing plant material such as conifer leaves and flowering plants, supporting the long-held belief that they ate only plants and did not chew their food.
A fossilized gut content of a 94-101 million-year-old sauropod dinosaur revealed that these herbivores primarily relied on gut microbes for digestion, consumed a variety of plants including conifers, seed ferns, and flowering plants, and engaged in minimal oral processing, supporting the idea of bulk feeding. This discovery provides rare direct evidence of sauropod diet and suggests they were indiscriminate feeders that adapted to eating flowering plants shortly after their appearance.