# Rare fossil discovery reveals new dinosaur species that specialized in eating fruit

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- Published: 2026-10-31T13:00:02+00:00
- Category: Science
- Original: https://phys.org/news/2026-10-rare-fossil-discovery-reveals-dinosaur.html
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Among the ravenous carnivores and lumbering herbivores that roamed the Cretaceous landscape, another kind of dinosaur was evolving that started to eat something else: the plants that began to flower and produce fruit. The discovery by paleontologists from Stony Brook University, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the North Dakota Geological Survey reveals that a new species, Infernogallus jamesi—a typ

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