This dinosaur didn’t have to worry about dentures. The Nigersaurus taqueti boasted 500 teeth, arranged in 50 rows across its jaw. When a tooth fell out, the teeth that had been lined up behind it would shift forward. Roaming modern-day Niger 80 million years ago, Nigersaurus didn’t use its long, snaky neck to munch on treetops, says Paul C.
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