Scientists have claimed that plant eating dinosaurs developed
long necks to gulp down their food without chewing. This has
been a puzzle for researchers wondering how gigantic plant
eating dinosaurs known as sauropods got to be so big. Now, a new
research has found that guzzling food let the giants get food
into their stomachs quickly. Long necks would also have helped
big dinosaurs get to food without moving from a particular spot,
say the scientists at Bonn University. When plant eating mammals
evolved they developed quite a different set of manners, relying
on chewing to make food more digestible. “Chewing is a property
which no large herbivorous terrestrial mammal has got rid of,”
lead scientist Prof Martin Sander was quoted by the ‘Daily Mail’
as saying. A staple part of the vegetarian dino-diet was
probably horsetails, fern-like plants that were abundant in
prehistoric swamps and highly nutritious, say the scientists.
Few animals feed on them today because they contain a lot of
hard silicate which is ba