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Dinos got high, oldest grass fungus fossil hints
 

Millions of years before LSD and rock and roll, dinosaurs munched on psychedelic fungus, a new study suggests. The hints that dinos got high come from the first amber fossil ever found of ergot, a grass parasite that can have poisonous and mind-altering effects on animals that nibble the dark fungi.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/02/1...p=features