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At least, that’s what palaeontologists thought . . .
When palaeontologists look very closely at dinosaur teeth, they can see lines where the foods they ate scratched marks on their teeth. Different types
of food leave different sorts of scratches and
the directions of these scratches show how the teeth moved against each other!
The cheeks were pushed out by the bottom teeth pushing the top teeth sideways!
What surprised palaeontologists so much was when they realised the marks on the teeth of EDMONTOSAURUS showed a side-to-side movement. Eating all that prehistoric vegetation was no problem for old Eddie!
Their skulls were packed with hundreds of teeth, and it looks like when the ‘cow of the Cretaceous’ took a bite downwards, the bottom teeth pushed the upper teeth out and sideways thanks to their jaws having hinges, pushing them out into its cheeks.
So, in a totally different way to mammals, dinosaurs evolved their own way to chew their food and break it down into more easily digested grub.
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