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\nWe often think of dinosaurs as either preying on other dinos or mammals, or as plant-eaters -- but in ecosystems today, those aren’t the only two options. So why would we expect dinosaurs to have only been carnivores or herbivores, with...\nWe often think of dinosaurs as either preying on other dinos or mammals, or as plant-eaters -- but in ecosystems today, those aren’t the only two options. So why would we expect dinosaurs to have only been carnivores or herbivores, with the occasional omnivore thrown in the mix?\n
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dinosaurs, ants, termites, insects, teeth, size, herbivores, omnivores, paleontology, evolution
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mononykus carnivores, insectivores, one functional claw, alvarezsaurs, social insects, haplocheirus, aorun, fossorial, alvarezsaurus, miniaturization, cretaceous terrestrial revolution, myrmecophages, albertonykus, natural history, apex predators, insect eaters, late cretaceous, early cretaceous, simple teeth, short arms, single claws, smaller prey, theropod dinosaurs, cretaceous, short, today, tiny, forearms, claws, smaller, found, shrinking, shrunk, evolved, life, dinos, paleontologists
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