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New Evolutionary Oddball Just Dropped: At 275 Million Years Old, It Had A Wonky Jaw With Teeth That Stuck Out SidewaysIllustration showing Tanyka amnicola in life, eating underwater plants.

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New Evolutionary Oddball Just Dropped: At 275 Million Years Old, It Had A Wonky Jaw With Teeth That Stuck Out SidewaysIllustration showing Tanyka amnicola in life, eating underwater plants.
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New Evolutionary Oddball Just Dropped: At 275 Million Years Old, It Had A Wonky Jaw With Teeth That Stuck Out Sideways

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Crocodiles Weren’t All Blood-Thirsty Killers, Some Evolved To Be Plant-Eating VegetariansChimaerasuchus, an extinct genus of Chinese crocodyliform, which some scientists think had the teeth of a herbivore.

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Crocodiles Weren’t All Blood-Thirsty Killers, Some Evolved To Be Plant-Eating VegetariansChimaerasuchus, an extinct genus of Chinese crocodyliform, which some scientists think had the teeth of a herbivore.
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Crocodiles Weren’t All Blood-Thirsty Killers, Some Evolved To Be Plant-Eating Vegetarians

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Think Tortoises, Mallards and Giraffes Are Vegetarian? Think AgainTortoise about to eat a forkful of steak and rosemary

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Think Tortoises, Mallards and Giraffes Are Vegetarian? Think AgainTortoise about to eat a forkful of steak and rosemary
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Think Tortoises, Mallards and Giraffes Are Vegetarian? Think Again

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Vegetarian Dinosaurs Evolved Different Ways To Eat The Same FoodModels comparing the bite power of five veggie dinosaurs

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Vegetarian Dinosaurs Evolved Different Ways To Eat The Same FoodModels comparing the bite power of five veggie dinosaurs
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Vegetarian Dinosaurs Evolved Different Ways To Eat The Same Food

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Giant Herbivorous Sauropods Like Diplodocus Were Descended From Meat-Eating AncestorsThree early dinosaurs and their diets: Lesothosaurus is an omnivore, Buriolestes is a carnivore and Thecodontosaurus is a herbivore. Some of their descendants would turn out very differently. Image Credit: Gabriel Ugueto

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Giant Herbivorous Sauropods Like Diplodocus Were Descended From Meat-Eating AncestorsThree early dinosaurs and their diets: Lesothosaurus is an omnivore, Buriolestes is a carnivore and Thecodontosaurus is a herbivore. Some of their descendants would turn out very differently. Image Credit: Gabriel Ugueto
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Giant Herbivorous Sauropods Like Diplodocus Were Descended From Meat-Eating Ancestors

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Our Ancestors Aren’t To Blame For Loss Of Africa’s Large Mammalsarticle image

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Our Ancestors Aren’t To Blame For Loss Of Africa’s Large Mammalsarticle image
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Our Ancestors Aren’t To Blame For Loss Of Africa’s Large Mammals

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Evolved Sense of Smell Turned Certain Fruit Flies Into Vegetariansarticle image

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Evolved Sense of Smell Turned Certain Fruit Flies Into Vegetariansarticle image
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Evolved Sense of Smell Turned Certain Fruit Flies Into Vegetarians

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Dinosaurs Co-existed By Dividing Their Dinnersarticle image

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Dinosaurs Co-existed By Dividing Their Dinnersarticle image
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Dinosaurs Co-existed By Dividing Their Dinners

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