Were dinosaurs tripping on the grass they ate?

Were dinosaurs tripping on the grass they ate?

         


http://www.cnet.com/news/were-dinosaurs-tripping-on-the-grass-they-ate/

Dinosaurs? Or drug addicts? New research suggests that palaeoclaviceps parasiticus, possibly the world's oldest grass, could have contained an LSD-like hallucinogen. This grass was common during the early-to-mid Cretaceous period on Earth, a thriving time period when there would have been plenty of dinosaurs chewing on the delicious grass and ingesting the trippy substance. According to George Poniar Jr. of the OSU College of Science, "...the fungus has been known to cause delirium, irrational behavior, convulsions, severe pain, gangrenous limbs and death. "There's no doubt in my mind that it would have been eaten by sauropod dinosaurs, although we can't know what exact effect it had on them." Thanks to a perfectly preserved amber fossil found in Myanmar, we now have a greater insight into what the dinosaurs ate, and the side effects that came along with it.
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