We now know more about the diet of this species than any other dinosaur.

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While this new understanding takes away the illusory comfort of dramatic quick-fix diet-solutions because we now know it is an effort doomed to fail, we gain the comfort reality brings when reality offers viable alternatives.

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"We do not know enough about the rest of their diet or their activity levels, " he says.

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How else would we know what compelling books to read or what latest fitness or diet craze to follow?

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