From Mexico City, at the 60th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Fossils recently unearthed in Madagascar show that modern dental techniques evolved much too late. Alas, some dinosaurs had uncorrected buckteeth.
Most of the teeth in a newly described species of theropod were serrated and curved slightly toward the rear of the mouth. This pattern is typical for such dinosaurs, says Scott D.
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