New dino species had big mouth
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Utah scientists have found a 75-million-year-old skull and other fossil remains of a new species of duck-billed dinosaur that possessed massive jaws, containing 800 teeth.
The bipedal herbivorous dinosaur, Gryposaurus monumentensis, was about 30 feet long and fed on plenty of plants, the researchers reported Wednesday in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
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