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For Some Feathered Dinosaurs, Bigger Not Always Better

For Some Feathered Dinosaurs, Bigger Not Always Better | Research from the NC Agricultural Research Service | Scoop.it
Researchers have started looking at why dinosaurs that abandoned meat in favor of vegetarian diets got so big, and their results may call conventional wisdom about plant-eaters and body size into question.

 

Biologist, Dr. Lindsay Zanno of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at NC State University, and Peter Makovicky of Chicago's Field Museum, published their conclusions in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2526




 

 

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Meet The Future

Meet The Future | Research from the NC Agricultural Research Service | Scoop.it
Andrew Miller, Hillary Spangler and KeJuan Weaver are the future. See how they're shaping today and how NC State is preparing them to transform tomorrow.
CALS Research, NCSU's insight:

Caldwell Scholar, CALS nutrition major, Hillary Spangler, is using what she learns to develop a healthy food choices program for public schools. It's already in use in Randolph County, NC

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