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PHDNM
12-23-2016, 06:14 PM
Limusaurus: Beaked, Bird-Like Dinosaur Species Had Teeth as Juveniles, Lost Them as They Grew

http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/2016/12/image_4478-Limusaurus-inextricabilis.jpg

An international team of paleontologists has discovered that Limusaurus inextricabilis, a species of Jurassic dinosaur, lost its teeth in adolescence and did not grow another set as adults.

Limusaurus inextricabilis (‘mire lizard who could not escape’) is a ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived during the Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) in what is now northwestern China. It was found in 159 million-year-old deposits located in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang and earned its name from the way its skeletons were preserved, stacked on top of each other in fossilized mire pits.

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/limusaurus-inextricabilis-beaked-bird-like-dinosaur-04478.html

Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin
12-23-2016, 06:18 PM
Yea many dinosaurs lost teeth and then evolved later into beaks

Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin
12-23-2016, 06:19 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_nMI9Mf50w