Dr Albert Prieto - Marquez, Research Associate in the School of Earth Sciences who co-led the research, said: «Some of the immensely successful duck - billed hadrosaurs of the Late Cretaceous might have been eating flowering plants, but their tooth wear patterns, and especially close study of their coprolites — that's fossil poops —
shows they were conifer specialists,
designed to crush and
digest the oily, tough needles and cones.»