Skull with broken tooth (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Skull with broken tooth

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The lions’ teeth were damaged during their lifetimes. Study co-author Thomas Gnoske found thousands of hairs embedded in the exposed cavities of the broken teeth.

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Photo Z94320 courtesy Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

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