“Dinosaur teeth are tough fossils and are usually preserved more frequently than bone,” study co-author and University of Southampton paleontologist Chris Barker said in a statement.
The fossilized teeth can also show the species' behavior and growth. A number of the specimens are currently exhibited at Bexhill Museum in East Sussex. The findings were published in the journal ...
Dr Steve Brusatte, of Edinburgh University, added: "Teeth are humble fossils, but they reveal a grand story of how sea reptiles evolved over millions of years as their environments changed.
Bexhill would have been home to meat-eating theropods, say researchers Dinosaur teeth found with the ... of geological age and the fossils they contain. "These East Sussex dinosaurs are older ...
Dinosaur teeth found ... region of coastal East Sussex 135 million years ago. It is the first time tyrannosaurs have been identified in sediments of this age and region. The fossils were ...
Paleontologists examined five fossilized theropod teeth for a study and found that they represented members of different dinosaur groups, including tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and dromaeosaurs ...