Thursday, July 18, 2013

Dinosaurs had teeth to spare -- lots of them

Plant-eating sauropods produced new teeth as often as twice monthly and had as many as nine backup teeth per tooth socket, new research shows.



Dinosaurs almost bankrupted the tooth fairy. New research shows that the lumbering plant-eaters called sauropods produced new teeth as often as twice per month and had up to nine backup teeth in a single tooth socket.



via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/ZbaI08a5w6I/la-sci-dinosaur-teeth-20130718,0,3622986.story

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