Fossil teeth of a plant-eating dinosaur have been discovered in southwestern Japan, offering fresh clues about the reptile and the ecological system some 81 million years ago, a local museum said Tuesday.
Thirty-five fossil teeth have been unearthed from a geological layer of the late Cretaceous period on the west bank of Nagasaki Peninsula, according to the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum and the city of Nagasaki.The teeth are believed to be of a herbivore similar to the hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, which is known to have had a dense array of flat teeth for chewing.Of the 35 teeth,…READ FULL ARTICLE
