Research: A dinosaur that used to have all new teeth every two months

According to a study published in the journal 'Ploce One', dinosaurs named Majungasaurus used to grow new teeth every two months. This rate is two to 13 times higher in dinosaurs of this species than in other carnivorous dinosaurs.

 

  It has been said in the study that the old teeth of the dinosaurs of this species used to fall soon. This was probably because they also used to eat bones. Researchers also included researchers from Adelphi University in the US.   To carry out this study, scientists investigated the microscopic growth of teeth through fossils of dinosaur teeth. He told that the growth lines on the teeth are like the ring of a tree and it used to be deposited once a year instead of once.   The co-author of the research and the University's Michael D. Deimic said that bones needed strong teeth to eat, but Mazungasaurus's teeth were not strong. So soon their teeth would fall and new teeth would come.   Scientists involved in the study team said that the coming teeth made Majungasaurus dinosaurs into the category of sharks and large and vegetarian dinosaurs.

 

Dinosaurs (Latin: Dinosauria), which means large lizard in the Greek language, were Earth's most important terrestrial vertebrate organisms for about 16 million years. It existed from the end of the Triassic period (about 23 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous period (about 6.5 million years ago), after which most of them became extinct as a result of the Cretaceous - Trilogy extinction event. Fossil records indicating that birds originated with theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period, and most paleontologists consider birds to be living descendants of dinosaurs to date. The translation of the word dinosaur in Hindi is Bhimsrat which means terrible lizard in Sanskrit.

Dinosaurs were a diverse group of animals. Paleontologists have so far identified 500 different lineages and over 1000 species of dinosaurs and their remains are found on every continent of the Earth. Some dinosaurs were vegetarians and some were non-vegetarians.

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