Dinosaur may have had worms

They may have ruled the land and the seas 75 million years ago, but even dinosaurs fell prey to the lowest of the low: gut worms, scientists report.

An unusually well-preserved fossil of a duck-billed dinosaur dug up in Montana has revealed great detail of the animal’s insides, including what appear to be tiny burrows that would have been made by worms. The team from the University of Colorado at Boulder found more than 200 suspected parasite burrows that most likely were made by tiny worms, said assistant geology professor Karen Chin, who presented her findings Monday at a meeting of the Geological Society of America in Philadelphia.