It may sound strange, but new study explains why dinosaurs ate stone, really it?

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Dinosaurs eat rocks

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Suar.ID – Dinosaur eat stone? That’s the finding of a recent study, which shows that life in the Late Jurassic was really hard to accept.

Pink quartzite, or as Science Times reports “stone fine red quartzite “, discovered by geologists while researching.

Invention stone The quartzite was so out of place that lead researcher Josh Malone began to wonder.

The answer: Dinosaur, in particular ‘sauropoda‘long necks like the Diplodocus, chewing on the “gastroliths” that clog the stomach during difficult food searches.

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The study, published in the journal Terra Nova, proposes “the long-distance migration hypothesis of dinosaurs, possibly following a low-energy, continental-scale drainage system.”

According to Malone and colleagues, the legendary creature followed a route believed to be a 600-mile journey from Wisconsin to Wyoming.

Gastroliths can be swallowed along the way.

Live Science noted that quartzite is seen naturally “in several places throughout North America, including Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, and Wisconsin”.

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