Plant-eating dinosaurs

Paul Barrett

Skeleton of a plant eating dinosaur
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Vegetarians tend not to make the news. We hear all the time about T. rex and other predators, but the herbivorous dinosaurs were more numerous, more diverse and in many ways more important. Join Museum scientist Paul Barrett to meet the plant-eating dinosaurs, learn about their social lives and how they defended themselves against those fashionable predators.

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  • Presented by: Paul Barrett
  • Date: 04 August 2003
  • Duration: 26:36

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