Detecting duckbill dinosaurs with 800 teeth

Fossil hunters have found a new duck-billed dinosaur with an unusually large body and mouth full of teeth, in a dinosaur cemetery in Utah, USA.

This huge herbivore lived on the planet about 75 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, and was almost certainly their ruler, surpassing other dinosaurs living in the same area. that period. It has a powerful beak-shaped jaw with 300 teeth that can bite most plants, plus 500 replacement teeth hidden in the large jaw bone.

Such a duck-billed dinosaur can be as long as 9 meters as an adult, making it one of the largest species in the hadrosaurs group (duck-shaped skulls) that once lived on earth. .

"It's a real monster," Terry Gates, a paleontologist at the Museum of Natural History, University of Utah, reported.

The team named the creature Gryposaurus monumentensis , with the intention of talking about the mine-shaped function and where it was found. Specimens are among the dozens of fossil skeletons found in this area, and some of them are new species yet known to experts.

Speculum dinosaur Gryposaurus monumentensis with a full set of teeth helps it eat most plants. (Photo: BBC)

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