Dinosaur Dentition
Many duck-billed dinosaurs roamed the late Cretaceous,
Their appetite for tough old plants was really quite voracious!
Phytoliths are tough on teeth (not like rice and beans),
Lucky duck-bills' mouths contained real slice-and-grind machines!
The power of complex dentition gave them more food sources,
Strangely like much-later beasts, like elephants and horses!
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6103/98.full
Friday, October 5, 2012
Image: Erickson et al., 2012 Science