Polly want a triceratops? Probably not. But University of Chicago paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno reports this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B that a dinosaur whose 110-million-year-old skull was found in Mongolia's Gobi desert ate nuts and seeds using a beak like a parrot's.
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