Dinosaurs may have tripped their balls off

[newflesh]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dinosaurs-got-high-on-psychedelic-fungus-fossil-discovery-reveals-10040628.html



"The discovery of a 100 million-year-old fossilised fungus which had 'poisonous and mind-altering' effects has revealed the possibility that dinosaurs...got high.

A preserved piece of ergot, a psychedelic fungus which grew on top of a grass spikelet, has been found in a hunk of amber in Burma – and researchers say that it may well have been nibbled by the prehistoric animals".

[lynn_402]

The same ergot which is the precursor to LSD...
I wonder if, and how, this has had an effect on the evolution of these life-forms and on their relation to their environment.

Thanks for sharing.