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  • n  primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal

  • On closer examination, the scientists determined that the remains were those of a juvenile psittacosaur, a herbivore known to inhabit the region.
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  • Paul Sereno in msnbc.com
    And more nutty evidence: "The psittacosaur at hand has a huge pile of stomach stones, more than 50, to grind away at whatever it eats, and this is totally out of proportion to its three-foot body length," Sereno said.

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