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Submitted by Nitpicker : 1329
Movie : Jurassic Park - 1993
Nitpick Category : Scientific Fact
Nitpick Number : 5284
Approximate time of Nitpick : near the middle
Summary : This girl couldn't chew 65 million years ago, so why can she chew now?
Detail : When Grant and the children woke up and saw the dino, you can clearly see\n that this girl (they where all girls ,right )is chewing. This kind of dinosaur called\n Brachiosaurus couldn't chew all those millions of years ago . It bit of some leaves and\n swallowed it . A special stomache did the chewing for him...er HER.


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well,

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by primium_mobile   Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:29 PM

Since the only evidence we have of any dinosaur is from fossilized bones, I would say that this is conjecture on your part. I happen to agree with you, but we do not know for sure. A lot of things about dinosaurs that were supposedly "sure things" have changed pretty drastically over the years... like warm blooded or cold blooded, whether a saurapod could really live outside of a swamp, the intelligence, related to reptiles or birds, and on and on. I don't think we know enough about Brachiosaurus to know if she chewed her food or not.

 

Wear Marks on Teeth, and Tooth Shape

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by DavidBowman   Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:29 PM

It's quite easy, actually, to tell something of the diet and eating style by looking at the teeth. Wide, flat teeth indicate MASHING, as in a pufferfish and a cow's teeth. If the teeth show a circular grinding pattern, it's obvious that the animal is capable of chewing.\rSpiky teeth, widely spaced peglike teeth, baleen (like in whales who filter-feed) or flat teeth which lack wear-patterns consistent with grinding would clearly indicate a lack of ability to grind and chew.\rLook at your own teeth. It's quite clear from shape alone, that your mouth is set up for both cutting AND grinding, but (unless you need braces) not for filter-feeding.

 

Teeth

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by 26930   Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:29 PM

The first commenter isn't being entirely accurate when he states, "the only evidence we have of any dinosaur is from fossilized bones." There are also trackways, eggshells, and coproliths. In any event, leaving shelled animals aside, the parts most likely to fossilize are, in fact, the teeth. As paleontologists trace evolutionary pathways, they are often following the results of one set of choppers mating with another.\r

The animal kingdom shows some interesting adaptations for eating. The pangolins, a toothless order of mammals, have developed bony knobs at the entrance to their stomachs. It is as if their teeth are not in their mouths, but in their bellies. Birds, relatives of the dinosaurs, are all quite toothless. Many, however, have the habit of swallowing bits of gravel which helps mash their food inside their gizzards.\r

As for Brachiosaurus (B. altithorax), with a set of rather peg-like teeth, while the consensus view is that of the nitpicker, it should be noted that Brachiosaurus skulls are not that common, and our view is based upon a limited sample.