Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Paleontologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontologists</span></a> discover <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> with teeth had <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/seeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seeds</span></a> in their stomachs, indicating that they ate fruit<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-09-paleontologists-fossil-birds-teeth-seeds.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-09-paleonto</span><span class="invisible">logists-fossil-birds-teeth-seeds.html</span></a></p><p>Direct evidence of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/frugivory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>frugivory</span></a> in the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mesozoic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mesozoic</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bird</span></a> Longipteryx contradicts morphological proxies for diet: Jingmai O’Connor et al. <a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)01124-2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cell.com/current-biology/abstr</span><span class="invisible">act/S0960-9822(24)01124-2</span></a> </p><p>"Since <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Longipteryx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longipteryx</span></a> lived in a temperate <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a>, it probably wasn't eating <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fruits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fruits</span></a> year-round... it had a mixed diet which included things like <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insects</span></a> when fruits weren't available."</p>