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    Plant-eating dinosaurs may have dined on crustaceans on special occasions, study says

    by By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Sep 22, 2017 4 minutes

    Think dinosaurs didn't mix things up at mealtime? Think again. Researchers studying fossilized dinosaur feces from about 75 million years ago have discovered that at least some plant-eating dinosaurs also snacked on shellfish.

    The discovery of crustacean remains in the droppings, described in Scientific Reports, reveals that large herbivorous dinosaurs such as hadrosaurs may have had far more complex eating habits than we usually give them credit for.

    "We need to refine our presumptions about dinosaur diets," said lead author Karen Chin, a paleontologist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

    Scientists studying the creatures of the lost world, ultimately annihilated by an asteroid some 66 million years ago,

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