Dinosaurs had a complex relationship with fungi and plants. We explore whether dinosaurs ate psychedelics, if they aided plant evolution, and even a carnivorous fungus.
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Dinosaur of the day Jeholornis, the first known bird to eat fruit.
Some of the main topics in this episode:
- The psychotropic fungus ergot in the Cretaceous
- Fungi in dinosaurian (Isisaurus) coprolites
- Dinosaurs feeding on flowering plants
- Dinosaur—angiosperm coevolution revisited
- "Hunting the Snark: the flawed search for mythical Jurassic angiosperms"
- Angiosperm evolution using phylogenomics
- Possible pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants
- Ancient pollen that may be from angiosperms
- How the end-Cretaceous extinction led to modern rainforests
- How plants fared after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
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