Skull Bones of <i>Razanandrongobe sakalavae</i> (IMAGE)
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Paleontologists Cristiano Dal Sasso (right) and Simone Maganuco (left) exhibit some skull bones of Razanandrongobe sakalavae at the Natural History Museum of Milan. The teeth are enormous, approaching in shape and size those of a T. rex. The tip of a shed tooth shows a deeply worn surface caused by contact with hard food, such as bone and tendon: this animal was both predator and scavenger. The origin of the preserved bones from opposite sides of the upper and lower jaws was a hindrance to the study of how they aligned. However, new technologies helped Cristiano Dal Sasso and colleagues solve the puzzle.
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Giovanni Bindellini
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