Dinosaur found with vacuum-cleaner mouth

Dinosaur found with vacuum-cleaner mouth

By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A dinosaur with a strange jaw designed to hoover-up food grazed in what is now the Sahara Desert 110 million years ago. Remains of the creature that "flabbergasted" paleontologist Paul Sereno went on display Thursday at the headquarters of the National Geographic Society, where they will remain until March.

Sereno and colleagues recovered, assembled and named the creature - Nigersaurus taqueti - that he said seems to break all the rules, yet still existed.

"The biggest eureka moment was when I was sitting at the desk with this jaw," he said. "I was sitting down just looking at it and saw a groove and ... realized that all the teeth were up front."

It's not normally a good idea to have all the teeth in the front of the jaw - hundreds in this case.

Link: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DINO_VACUUM?SITE=NYPLA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

This one sounds bird like to me!

cool article!

And better genes to start out with.

What else is out there?

RL

:spank:

:rofl:

:evilgrin:

But that would be wrong.

I vaguely remember using a dino or something to vacuum her floor
Carly

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