Research has discovered Dinosaurs may have tripped on psychedelic fungus

FORGET Woodstock. The earliest usage of psychedelics may have begun with the dinosaurs. That’s right, dinosaurs on LSD. Awesome.

An artists impression of a Triceratops dinosaur.

HAVE you heard the one about dinosaurs tripping on LSD?

Surprisingly, this is not even a joke and was something that actually occurred.

A study from Oregon State University claims gigantic grass-eating dinosaurs used to get high on a prehistoric form of the psychedelic drug.

The discovery came after researches located a perfectly preserved amber fossil in Myanmar.

Estimated to be 100 million years old, the fossil contained the ergot fungus, which can be turned into the active ingredient in LSD.

Without even being turned into the psychedelic drug, ergot can have poisonous or mind-altering effects on animals that ingest the dark fungi.

Oregon State University’s College of Science faculty member George Poinar Jr said this was a very important discovery.

“It seems like ergot has been involved with animals and humans almost forever and now we know that this fungus literally dates back to the earliest evolution of grasses,” he said.

“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.”

While it may be impossible to determine how the drug impacted dinosaurs, the thought of a Brachiosaurus cruising around with a belly full of psychedelics is enough to make anyone’s mind wander.

Well played science, well played.