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Dinosaurs may have vanished millions of years ago, but their teeth still carry a message from Earth’s distant past. A team of ...
A new study from the University of Texas has analyzed tiny particles found in dinosaur teeth to understand what ancient ...
A collection of dinosaur teeth hailing back to the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods has given scientists a new window into the world's prehistoric climate. By studying an isotope of oxygen in the ...
What did long-necked dinosaurs eat—and where did they roam to satisfy their hunger? A team of researchers has reconstructed the feeding behavior of sauropods using cutting-edge dental wear ...
Researchers analyzed the teeth of the earliest dinosaurs to determine what they ate. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's ...
An analysis of tooth enamel from animals that roamed the western United States about 150 million years ago, including (from left) Allosaurus, Apatosaurus, a herd of Diplodocus and two Camptosaurus, ...
Herbivore dinosaurs only ate plants. They usually lived in forests with lots of greenery. Carnivores, like the Tyrannosaurus ...
A new research paper published in PLOS One explains how scientists studying one particular species of dinosaur discovered something incredible about its teeth.
Scratches on dinosaur teeth could reveal what they really ate. For the first time, dental microwear texture analysis has been used to infer the feeding habits of large theropods, including Allosaurus ...
An interdisciplinary team of specialists has revealed a large, hypercarnivorous crocodile that lived in southern Argentina about 70 million years ago.
Spinosaurid dinosaurs were able to develop up to three generations of teeth at the same time, a high replacement rate that explains why so many teeth of this type have been found in Cretaceous sites.
But why was Majungasaurus so different from other carnivores? Previous work on theropod dinosaurs focused on the famous tyrannosaurs which replaced their teeth slowly.