What dinosaur has 600 teeth?

Nigersaurus had a delicate skull and an extremely wide mouth lined with teeth especially adapted for browsing plants close to the ground. This bizarre, long-necked dinosaur is characterized by its unusually broad, straight-edged muzzle tipped with more than 500 replaceable teeth.
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What dinosaur has 10000000 teeth?

Nigersaurus is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived during the middle Cretaceous period, about 115 to 105 million years ago. It was discovered in the Elrhaz Formation in an area called Gadoufaoua, in the Republic of Niger.
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What dinosaur is 800 teeth?

Triceratops, the three-horned frilled plant-eating dinosaur that everyone knows and loves, may have had a secret weapon in its 800 teeth. New research shows there was a lot more to Triceratops' bite than meets the eyes. Triceratops is one of the most iconic dinosaurs of all time.
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Is there a dinosaur with 1000 teeth?

Nigersaurus -- so named because it was discovered in Niger -- had the long neck of a Diplodocus and up to 1,000 teeth in its intricate jaws, Sereno, of the University of Chicago, said on Monday.
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What is a dinosaur with 600 teeth?

Nigersaurus had upwards of 600 teeth in its jaws. These teeth were arranged in rows along the front edges of the jaws, forming effective 30 cm long shears for cropping vegetation.
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What animal has 1000 teeth?

There are more than 100 fish teeth in the ocean for every single animal tooth on land! Most dolphins have 96 teeth and whales have more than 1,000.
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How many teeth did T Rex have?

This dinosaur used its 60 serrated teeth, each about eight inches long, to pierce and grip flesh, throwing prey into the air and swallowing it whole.
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What dinosaur has 500 bones?

Bizarre 500-toothed dinosaur

Nigersaurus, you might remember, we named for bones collected on the last expedition here three years ago.
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What dinosaur is still alive?

In an evolutionary sense, birds are a living group of dinosaurs because they descended from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive.
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How many teeth did a velociraptor have?

In contrast to the imposing figure of the T-Rex, the Velociraptor was a tiny carnivorous dinosaur, roughly the size of a small turkey. But that doesn't make their teeth any less sharp! The Velociraptor had anywhere from 27 to 30 serrated teeth that were spaced apart in their upper and lower jaws.
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What dinosaur has the longest name?

The Longest Dinosaur Name

The dinosaur with the longest name was Micropachycephalosaurus meaning "tiny thick-headed lizard". Its fossils have been found in China, and it was named in 1978 by the Chinese paleontologist Dong.
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What dinosaur has the strongest bite force?

The T. rex had the strongest bite of any land animal in Earth's history. Its toothy jaw delivered upwards of 7 tons of pressure when it chomped its prey.
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Did dinosaurs have small brains?

While the dinosaurs grew bigger, their brains didn't keep up. By the time the sauropods, like brontosaurus, reached 100 tons and 110 feet long, their brains were only the size of tennis balls.
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What creature has the most teeth?

Snails have the most teeth of any animal

A garden snail has about 14,000 teeth while other species can have over 20,000. But that's not even the most shocking part: The teeth of an aquatic snail called the limpet are the strongest known biological material on Earth, even stronger than titanium!
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Will dinosaurs come back in 2050?

The Adam Smith Institute, a British think tank, has released a new report predicting what life will be like in 2050. According to the report: "Several species of dinosaur will be recreated, making their appearance on Earth for the first time in 66 million years.
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Does a dragon exist?

Dragons don't exist (as far as we know), but some of their individual characteristics can be found throughout the animal kingdom. It would have taken quite a few turns for natural selection to have produced dragons, but if you're willing to stretch a bit, most classic dragon characteristics do exist in other species.
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Can the dinosaurs come back?

"The problem with dinosaurs is that the oldest DNA that we have in the fossil record is about a million years old, and dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago." This is a problem because while some soft tissues and proteins can be preserved over large geologic timescales, DNA, as far as scientists know, cannot.
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What dinosaur has a long neck?

The sauropod dinosaurs, which included titans such as Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, and Apatosaurus (once known as Brontosaurus), are well-known for the very long necks they usually sported. The lengthy neck extended the animal's reach for grabbing food.
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How fast can the fastest dinosaur run?

The fastest dinosaur could be the Struthiomimus, running up to 60 mph (96 kph). The dinosaur Compsognathus ran around 40 mph (64 kph), and the Megalosaurus ran about 30 mph (48 kph).
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What dinosaur does not have teeth?

Researchers have discovered that a species of dinosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis, lost its teeth in adolescence and did not grow another set as adults. The finding is a radical change in anatomy during a lifespan and may help to explain why birds have beaks but no teeth.
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How many teeth did Giganotosaurus have?

Giganotosaurus had 76 teeth, and each tooth was eight inches long.
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Were there any pink dinosaurs?

Fossils that indicate feathered dinos also contained trace evidence that suggested the feathers could have been brown, black red or white. So, without any real evidence either way, it's entirely possible that a pink or purple dinosaur could have existed.
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How many teeth does a Indoraptor have?

The skull possesses a large, powerful jaw with up to seventy-four widely spaced, conical teeth; these protrude slightly outward like those of its predecessors.
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