Surprising Discovery On Dinosaurs: Experts Opine All Dinosaurs Had Teeth

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New research on dinosaurs has made a new discovery. Currently, after searching the previous fossil evidence, it is explored that young dinosaurs lost their teeth as they grew older. Previously fossil study proved that young dinosaurs ate meat with teeth, and there were two kinds of Dinosaurs one having teeth and another was toothless.

But a new study revealed a completely different fact. Very recently famous journal Current Biology has published a report on a new study regarding the 'shed teeth' of the younger dinosaurs.

A decade ago the first fossilised remains of the dinosaur were discovered. Even almost 150 million years ago Limusaurus inextricabilis also sheltered in China.

Shuo Wang, the famous researcher of the Capital Normal University in Beijing said that previously it was assumed that two different kinds of ceratosaurian dinosaurs were present in the Wucaiwan area.

Among these two types, one particular type had teeth and the other one was toothless.

But after a minute study and thorough research, the palaeontologists have realised that both the types have a huge number of similarities, and the only difference between them is the presence of teeth.  

Even the study has clearly unveiled that both kinds of dinosaurs had teeth, and they lost the teeth over time.

Another great researcher of the University of Edinburgh, Dr Stephen Brusatte appreciated this discovery hugely.

Sources of BBC News report that Dr Stephen Brusatte is very much interested with this revelation. He has said that before this discovery, nobody has the idea that dinosaurs 'had teeth as babies'. The most interesting thing is they lost the teeth as they grew older.

No other fossil vertebrate has such evidence as this fossil vertebrate has.

Sources of BBC News also added that Dr Stig Walsh of the National Museums of Scotland is surprised to know that the Dinosaurs first ate food with their teeth, but later those teeth became the part of their disadvantage.

Actually, Limusaurus was the original theropod dinosaur, and they belong to the carnivores group.

Scientists and researchers have opined that the young dinosaurs were a part of the omnivorous and they ate meat with their teeth. On the other hand, the adults used their beaks like birds, and they were dependent mainly on plants.