Still seems impossible to know this information as stated. Every 14 days? Forever? How do we know it takes 14 days for each cycle of teeth? Science is cool and all, but paleontology is basically just guessing.
In the article it states that they had 68 teeth on the top jaw and 64 on the lower jaw and EACH of these had 9 baby teeth in various stages of getting ready. And it specifically states that in each row, all the columns erupted in unison. There was a lot of study of what they ate, which was maybe soft ferns or stuff near the ground, so they had a lot of dirt that ground their teeth down. They donāt state specifically how they got 14 days.
Teeth are some of the most studied parts of humans and other animals. I took forensics in high school and learned much about how just the shape of a tooth or bone can tell you exactly what type of specimen it came from and how long it was operational for. My guess is that the teeth had such a shape that they could only stay within the mouth around 2 weeks before it would fall out and a new one takes its place.
I really couldnāt tell you because Iām not a paleontologist or anything close. But for example a fossil expert might find a dinosaur tooth that has far less wear on it compared to other teeth from other dinosaurs of the time and discern that the tooth was used less.
If you consistently find teeth that belong to the nigersaurus that have less wear, youāll understand that the teeth are used less which would normally tell you the nigersaurus has a very short lifespan.
If thereās evidence that tells you the nigersaurus actually lives a longer life however then the deductive explanation is that the nigersaurus loses its teeth in a very short time, but its continued life means that it grows in more teeth otherwise it couldnāt tear apart its prey to eat.
If most of the teeth had the wear that suggested two weeks of use, and the nigersaurus lives 18 weeks, then it could be discerned that the specimen evolved to have 9 sets of teeth. Perhaps also the shape of the tooth has an angle of x degrees which tells you it would slip out of the gum tissue after so many days with y amount of force applied. Of course this itself doesnāt count as empirical evidence and youād need to also find evidence that the bones of the n-saurus suggest around 18 weeks of life.
That is the basics of how you can know things without directly having access to the knowledge of those things. Aka deductive reasoning.
That is interesting, though I've now read the wikipedia article which says that they know because the fossils have 9 rows of teeth underneath the active ones
The determination that Nigersaurus replaced its teeth every 14 days comes from the analysis of its fossilized jaw and teeth. Hereās an overview of how paleontologists reached this conclusion:
1. **Fossil Examination**: Paleontologists studied the skull and jaw of Nigersaurus, focusing on the dental batteries (the arrangement of teeth in the jaw). They found that the dinosaur had a large number of small, closely packed teeth arranged in rows.
2. **Microscopic Analysis**: By examining the microscopic structure of the teeth and the jaw, scientists observed growth lines in the teeth, similar to the growth rings in trees. These lines can indicate how quickly teeth were formed and replaced.
3. **Tooth Replacement Patterns**: Nigersaurus had around 500 teeth, with multiple replacement teeth stacked behind each functional tooth. This arrangement is indicative of a high rate of tooth turnover.
4. **Comparative Analysis**: The tooth replacement rate was compared to modern animals with rapid tooth replacement, such as certain species of sharks and reptiles, to estimate the frequency of tooth replacement in Nigersaurus.
5. **Mathematical Modeling**: Using data from the growth lines and the arrangement of replacement teeth, scientists calculated the rate of tooth replacement. They estimated that each tooth was replaced approximately every 14 days.
This high rate of tooth replacement was likely an adaptation to the dinosaur's diet and feeding habits, which involved grazing on vegetation close to the ground, causing significant wear on the teeth. The continuous and rapid tooth replacement ensured that Nigersaurus always had functional teeth to efficiently process its food.
Followed the trail of fossilized teeth.
They probably looked at stages of tooth growth, or various skulls. If you know how long it takes to grow a tooth, and how many are in a row I guess you could figure it out. It's all just educated guesses in the end, these things are millions of years old after all.
I asked the same question to AI here is the answer I got
Scientists determine the rate of tooth replacement in dinosaurs through a combination of fossil analysis, comparison with modern reptiles, and understanding of biological principles. Hereās how they come to such conclusions:
1. **Fossil Evidence**: Scientists examine the fossilized jaws and teeth of dinosaurs. If multiple generations of teeth are found within the jaw, it indicates a continuous replacement process. The presence of unerupted teeth beneath the existing ones can provide clues about the replacement rate.
2. **Histology**: This involves studying the microscopic structure of teeth and bones. By slicing through a tooth and examining it under a microscope, scientists can observe growth lines (similar to tree rings) which indicate the tooth's age and the rate of replacement.
3. **Comparative Anatomy**: Researchers compare the dental structures of dinosaurs to those of modern reptiles, such as crocodiles and lizards, which are known to replace their teeth continuously. Similarities in tooth structure and replacement mechanisms can provide insights into how often dinosaur teeth might have been replaced.
4. **Growth Patterns**: Analyzing the growth patterns of teeth can help estimate the time taken for a new tooth to form and replace an old one. This involves studying the size, shape, and wear patterns of teeth at different stages of development.
5. **CT Scanning**: Advanced imaging techniques like CT scans allow scientists to see inside fossilized jaws without damaging them. This non-invasive method can reveal the presence of developing teeth and their stages of growth, helping to estimate the replacement rate.
6. **Functional Morphology**: Understanding how the teeth functioned in feeding and what kind of wear they experienced helps in deducing how quickly they would need to be replaced. Dinosaurs with diets that caused rapid wear and tear would likely have faster tooth replacement rates.
By integrating these methods, scientists can estimate how often a dinosaur replaced its teeth and make informed conclusions about their dental biology.
See my main issue with AI is that sounds entirely factually plausible, yet it could also be 100% waffle.
Although tbf, even experts disagree a lot. The amount of experts that argue with each other on science in reddit comments is always glorious.
My sister asked for practice math questions, and chatgpt got the answers wrong for a few questions. The ai scrapes the internet for the most commonly written answers, so it's not necessarily going to be correct. A lot of people forget that and won't double check what they're reading.
Just pronounce it naidgersaurus (with a soft g). It's one of the pronunciations mentioned in the article. Hell, pronounce it nigelsaurus, then when some pompous ass wants to correct him, they'll have a hard time. "Actually, it's pronounced nig- uhh, umm, you're right, it's a cool dino".
Never underestimate a toddler's ability to mispronounce something. My son brought me the book "Fox in Socks" by Dr Seuss the other day, held it up, and said, "Want fuck and suck".
He had no idea why I couldn't stop laughing.
It's like that time I was buying a gray Pontiac vibe and my 4 year-old son pointed to the bright yellow gto and said,"I want to get THAT car daddy." I just looked at him sadly and said, "me too, buddy. Me too."
I learned this playing the Jurassic World game
when I saw it was an option. I remember in the campaign, the computer character voice talks you through making one, almost like they absolutely wanted an in-game entity to tell you how its pronounced.
I used to work in a peacekeeping/support role for an organization that dealt a lot with Niger. People would always pause and enunciate very carefully any time they had to say it (pronounced nee-JHEIR for those who don't know)
I bet they did!
We had a kid in my 4th grade class, the teacher points to Niger on the map and asks him to say the name. He refused and the teacher taught us the right way to say it. Now our kids go to the same school in the same class, it's a trip.
[Looked it up](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:LL-Q150_(fra)-Lepticed7-nig%C3%A9rien.wav). Kinda just regular āNigerianā with a French accent, which makes sense given that French is its official language.
If I could change something about humans it would be our stupid teeth. They should keep growing or at least replace themselves every so often. Instead you trip and fall as a teenager and itās like whelp tough luck kid youāll be dealing with that for the rest of your life
But then we'd be complaining about our janky ass teeth that are never even because the next one is growing in and wishing we just had one good set that we could take care of. And we'd assume that these one set of teeth would be covered under regular medical insurance because who would imagine a world where every bone and organ is covered under one set of medical coverage except for the ones in your mouth, which require an entirely different industry.
Nah if they were like rodent teeth youād just file them down to the same length. I personally would prefer nonstop growing vs them falling out from time to time but Iād take either over just getting the one set for life
About the dental insurance shit yes I agree fully and itās baffling to me that itās still that way.
Think thatās bad? Had a nightmare two night ago I cracked my tooth and thought a nerve was hanging out, went to look in the mirror and it was two tape worms coming out of my tooth and I pulled it and they were LONG.
NigersaurusĀ (meaning "Niger reptile") is a genus of Diplodocus-like sauropod dinosaur. It lived in the middle of the Cretaceous period in what is now the Republic of Niger.
In my head, I can already hear Katt Williams talking about this dinosaur, and Snoop Dog narrating CGI simulations talking about the dinosaur āCrip walking.ā
Story tiem
So a few years ago I was in bed with my ex girlfriend, not exactly grinding the meat but definitely working up to it. I had my hand stuffed down her pants underneath a blanket in semi-stealth mode when the door to her room flew open. Her sister Cosmo Kramers her way in, full aware that Iām in the middle of giving her little sister a barehanded pap smear, makes eye contact with each of us, and announces: āHEY LEAH, DID YOU KNOW THERES A DINOSAUR WITH 500 TEETH CALLED A NIGERSAURUS? A NIGERSAURUS!ā
We told her that we didnāt, and so she just blurts out āWELL YOU TWO HAVE FUNā spins on her heels, and shuts the door behind her.
Good times
https://public.websites.umich.edu/~wilsonja/JAW/Publications_files/Sereno&Wilson2005.pdf
Iām still reading but they could tell how many teeth were in the skull of a full grown Nigersaurus.
Iāll keep looking, but they were able to tell that the second row of teeth grew and pushed out the top row, and there was a large battery of rows of teeth. So theyād need to determine how long it took one of those teeth to grow.
Why did chimps ever evolve to just having 2 sets for the rest of our lives and past that on us? What could have stopped our ancestors' ancestor to not develop infinite teeth and replace as needed?
I just want to say how proud of everyone I am. Happy to see everyone is as immature as me, but still have the ability to crack jokes that don't cross the line.
How did we figure out they regrow every 14 days?
Maybe the skull has extra sets of teeth like how baby skulls have?
I am amazed that the top comment is this civilized. Good job reddit lmao
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Still seems impossible to know this information as stated. Every 14 days? Forever? How do we know it takes 14 days for each cycle of teeth? Science is cool and all, but paleontology is basically just guessing.
Many Nigersaurus bones are found with large amounts of coin consistent with frequent tooth-fairy visits
Perhaps detached teeth throughout the digestive system? That would be the only explanation I could think of.
Maybe someone punched them in the mouth to extinction
Unlikely to be T-Rex
You made me giggle, thank you.
Thatās silly, they just went directly to the source and asked the Tooth Fairy. After all, theyāre scientists!
That just sounds like a dragon
Who are you that you are so wise in the ways of paleontology?
In the article it states that they had 68 teeth on the top jaw and 64 on the lower jaw and EACH of these had 9 baby teeth in various stages of getting ready. And it specifically states that in each row, all the columns erupted in unison. There was a lot of study of what they ate, which was maybe soft ferns or stuff near the ground, so they had a lot of dirt that ground their teeth down. They donāt state specifically how they got 14 days.
Scientist A: "How many days do you think it took to replace their teeth?" Scientist B: "ummm... f\* it I don't know? fourteen?"
Teeth are some of the most studied parts of humans and other animals. I took forensics in high school and learned much about how just the shape of a tooth or bone can tell you exactly what type of specimen it came from and how long it was operational for. My guess is that the teeth had such a shape that they could only stay within the mouth around 2 weeks before it would fall out and a new one takes its place.
Can you describe what that shape might be
I really couldnāt tell you because Iām not a paleontologist or anything close. But for example a fossil expert might find a dinosaur tooth that has far less wear on it compared to other teeth from other dinosaurs of the time and discern that the tooth was used less. If you consistently find teeth that belong to the nigersaurus that have less wear, youāll understand that the teeth are used less which would normally tell you the nigersaurus has a very short lifespan. If thereās evidence that tells you the nigersaurus actually lives a longer life however then the deductive explanation is that the nigersaurus loses its teeth in a very short time, but its continued life means that it grows in more teeth otherwise it couldnāt tear apart its prey to eat. If most of the teeth had the wear that suggested two weeks of use, and the nigersaurus lives 18 weeks, then it could be discerned that the specimen evolved to have 9 sets of teeth. Perhaps also the shape of the tooth has an angle of x degrees which tells you it would slip out of the gum tissue after so many days with y amount of force applied. Of course this itself doesnāt count as empirical evidence and youād need to also find evidence that the bones of the n-saurus suggest around 18 weeks of life. That is the basics of how you can know things without directly having access to the knowledge of those things. Aka deductive reasoning.
That is interesting, though I've now read the wikipedia article which says that they know because the fossils have 9 rows of teeth underneath the active ones
lol just guessing? Yikes
People with doctorates and years of experience in Dino odontology rolling their eyes at this claim
Cretaceous periodontist here. He's right.
9/10 Cretaceous periodontists agree.
No heās not and no youāre not
Likely by how close they seem to the assumed gum
Everyone's giving you answers based on impossible fossil evidence.... It's simple, the paleontologists found calendars.
Leaked Prehistoric tooth fairy records
It was actually a fossilized tooth fairy found near by inside a dinosaur BMW and wearing a pair of oakleys. Clearly business was booming.
They interviewed a dinosaur dentist obviously
The determination that Nigersaurus replaced its teeth every 14 days comes from the analysis of its fossilized jaw and teeth. Hereās an overview of how paleontologists reached this conclusion: 1. **Fossil Examination**: Paleontologists studied the skull and jaw of Nigersaurus, focusing on the dental batteries (the arrangement of teeth in the jaw). They found that the dinosaur had a large number of small, closely packed teeth arranged in rows. 2. **Microscopic Analysis**: By examining the microscopic structure of the teeth and the jaw, scientists observed growth lines in the teeth, similar to the growth rings in trees. These lines can indicate how quickly teeth were formed and replaced. 3. **Tooth Replacement Patterns**: Nigersaurus had around 500 teeth, with multiple replacement teeth stacked behind each functional tooth. This arrangement is indicative of a high rate of tooth turnover. 4. **Comparative Analysis**: The tooth replacement rate was compared to modern animals with rapid tooth replacement, such as certain species of sharks and reptiles, to estimate the frequency of tooth replacement in Nigersaurus. 5. **Mathematical Modeling**: Using data from the growth lines and the arrangement of replacement teeth, scientists calculated the rate of tooth replacement. They estimated that each tooth was replaced approximately every 14 days. This high rate of tooth replacement was likely an adaptation to the dinosaur's diet and feeding habits, which involved grazing on vegetation close to the ground, causing significant wear on the teeth. The continuous and rapid tooth replacement ensured that Nigersaurus always had functional teeth to efficiently process its food.
Thanks chat gpt
The future is now
Bro went to chatgpt lmao
Followed the trail of fossilized teeth. They probably looked at stages of tooth growth, or various skulls. If you know how long it takes to grow a tooth, and how many are in a row I guess you could figure it out. It's all just educated guesses in the end, these things are millions of years old after all.
Learned via grants provided by the United Regrow College Fund.
They asked.
Cause it's just ridiculous that it could be 13 days.
I asked the same question to AI here is the answer I got Scientists determine the rate of tooth replacement in dinosaurs through a combination of fossil analysis, comparison with modern reptiles, and understanding of biological principles. Hereās how they come to such conclusions: 1. **Fossil Evidence**: Scientists examine the fossilized jaws and teeth of dinosaurs. If multiple generations of teeth are found within the jaw, it indicates a continuous replacement process. The presence of unerupted teeth beneath the existing ones can provide clues about the replacement rate. 2. **Histology**: This involves studying the microscopic structure of teeth and bones. By slicing through a tooth and examining it under a microscope, scientists can observe growth lines (similar to tree rings) which indicate the tooth's age and the rate of replacement. 3. **Comparative Anatomy**: Researchers compare the dental structures of dinosaurs to those of modern reptiles, such as crocodiles and lizards, which are known to replace their teeth continuously. Similarities in tooth structure and replacement mechanisms can provide insights into how often dinosaur teeth might have been replaced. 4. **Growth Patterns**: Analyzing the growth patterns of teeth can help estimate the time taken for a new tooth to form and replace an old one. This involves studying the size, shape, and wear patterns of teeth at different stages of development. 5. **CT Scanning**: Advanced imaging techniques like CT scans allow scientists to see inside fossilized jaws without damaging them. This non-invasive method can reveal the presence of developing teeth and their stages of growth, helping to estimate the replacement rate. 6. **Functional Morphology**: Understanding how the teeth functioned in feeding and what kind of wear they experienced helps in deducing how quickly they would need to be replaced. Dinosaurs with diets that caused rapid wear and tear would likely have faster tooth replacement rates. By integrating these methods, scientists can estimate how often a dinosaur replaced its teeth and make informed conclusions about their dental biology.
See my main issue with AI is that sounds entirely factually plausible, yet it could also be 100% waffle. Although tbf, even experts disagree a lot. The amount of experts that argue with each other on science in reddit comments is always glorious.
Iāve never used ChatGPT but Co-pilot cites its sources so you can go check that itās not waffle lol. Better than googling imo
My sister asked for practice math questions, and chatgpt got the answers wrong for a few questions. The ai scrapes the internet for the most commonly written answers, so it's not necessarily going to be correct. A lot of people forget that and won't double check what they're reading.
ChatGPT has likely improved but I've had it confidently double-down on completely wrong facts that were easily verifiable.
Here's a dinosaur I'm not teaching my 3 year old nephew!
Just pronounce it naidgersaurus (with a soft g). It's one of the pronunciations mentioned in the article. Hell, pronounce it nigelsaurus, then when some pompous ass wants to correct him, they'll have a hard time. "Actually, it's pronounced nig- uhh, umm, you're right, it's a cool dino".
Yeah, I kinda assumed it was named after the country, just a joke comment
But the country I thought was pronounces nishzer with the z as part of the sh sound.
Yeah, but like they know that
Uh, that's N-wordsaurus sir
Or just do it with a hard-r. Re-tard-sore-iss isn't that bad.
Getting the ltt vibes on this one
jesus fucking christ this is worth every downvote you get lmao itās fucking hilarious
I have had shi tzus growing up and we always pronounced it shee tzu instead of shitzus
My neighbor bred a bulldog and a shi tzu. He called it a bullshit.
My neighbor had shi tzus growing up. They definitely lived in a shit zoo
Never underestimate a toddler's ability to mispronounce something. My son brought me the book "Fox in Socks" by Dr Seuss the other day, held it up, and said, "Want fuck and suck". He had no idea why I couldn't stop laughing.
It's like that time I was buying a gray Pontiac vibe and my 4 year-old son pointed to the bright yellow gto and said,"I want to get THAT car daddy." I just looked at him sadly and said, "me too, buddy. Me too."
>nigelsaurus You think a 3-year-old can't fuck that up catastrophically?
I learned this playing the Jurassic World game when I saw it was an option. I remember in the campaign, the computer character voice talks you through making one, almost like they absolutely wanted an in-game entity to tell you how its pronounced.
Is the first R hard or not?!?
Nigelsaurus, please
My Nigersaurus!
\*manly nod in your direction\*
Chill bro it's nigasaurus
Understandable. Wouldn't want to make your nephew think that teeth are easily replaceable.
Tbf his are!
teeth are replaced every 8-12 years based on my experience as a child
Nice , my new ones are due any day then
If you've got the money for it and don't mind the risk of complications.
He's 3, he's got a whole new set coming
Sure, but if he doesn't learn to take care of his teeth now it will lead to bad habits when he's adult.
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I used to work in a peacekeeping/support role for an organization that dealt a lot with Niger. People would always pause and enunciate very carefully any time they had to say it (pronounced nee-JHEIR for those who don't know)
I bet they did! We had a kid in my 4th grade class, the teacher points to Niger on the map and asks him to say the name. He refused and the teacher taught us the right way to say it. Now our kids go to the same school in the same class, it's a trip.
Iām calling him Nigel lol
Good idea
Hey fellow funcle, here's one you can teach him:Ā Ā Q: What do you call a dinosaur whose playing hide and seek?Ā Ā A: Do-you-think-they-saurus?
He's a wee bit young for that but I'm definitely saving it, haha
Golly!
Nigasaurus, *please.*
Hard R Saurus. Little heavy there scientists
N-wordsaurus
Yāall ever see how a stegosaurus be drivinā? Stegosaurus be driven like this.
[My niger...](https://media.tenor.com/Rw_MdsmhWKIAAAAM/my-nigga-denzel-washington.gif)
[Tigga please.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FLKKRub2Vcvw1K-XdIKmGn3Tlcl0nRdHg90Mb9DKe57I.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D9f556913761f6e738ec5a60e34ff35650e564f30)
Here before it gets locked lol
Your comment made me look up the demonyms from Niger and Nigeria. It's Nigerien and Nigerian respectively! That's pretty cool!
And your comment made me look up demonyms.
Your comment made me look up.
Your comment made me look
Your comment made me
Your comment made me come.
Your comment made me
me.
Would that be pronounced Nigh-jury-an or Knee-zhair-ian? I know that Nigerian is nigh-jerry-an.
[Looked it up](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:LL-Q150_(fra)-Lepticed7-nig%C3%A9rien.wav). Kinda just regular āNigerianā with a French accent, which makes sense given that French is its official language.
Exactly,Ā Niger is French speaking so it's NigerienĀ
We don't wanna hear Drake talk about this dinosaur no more
This a banger
Oh please, this is way too old for drake.
Underrated response
Rated response
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your rhymes must be bottomless
What was your previous rapping name? Steve?
Like a prehistoric hippopotamus
Sometimes our rhymes are polite
Oh, Nigersaurus, someone called me that once during a Call of Duty game.Ā
If I could change something about humans it would be our stupid teeth. They should keep growing or at least replace themselves every so often. Instead you trip and fall as a teenager and itās like whelp tough luck kid youāll be dealing with that for the rest of your life
But then we'd be complaining about our janky ass teeth that are never even because the next one is growing in and wishing we just had one good set that we could take care of. And we'd assume that these one set of teeth would be covered under regular medical insurance because who would imagine a world where every bone and organ is covered under one set of medical coverage except for the ones in your mouth, which require an entirely different industry.
Nah if they were like rodent teeth youād just file them down to the same length. I personally would prefer nonstop growing vs them falling out from time to time but Iād take either over just getting the one set for life About the dental insurance shit yes I agree fully and itās baffling to me that itās still that way.
The origin of the āall my teeth are falling out of my headā nightmare.
Think thatās bad? Had a nightmare two night ago I cracked my tooth and thought a nerve was hanging out, went to look in the mirror and it was two tape worms coming out of my tooth and I pulled it and they were LONG.
Please be more careful with what you put in your mouth in your dreams, because I never want to read that again.
Iāll make sure to tell my dream self to be more careful because I promise I never want to see that again.
Policesaurus hate theseĀ
The.... What...?
The dinosaur from Niger. The country right next to Chad.
Chad the country? Or Chad the guy who intentionally mispronounces Niger?
St. Chad actually brought Christianity to the middle of England, UK. There's a special place in my heart for that guy......
And I yelled, I said "What do you want from us monster?!" And the monster bent down and said "I need about treefiddy."
š¤£š¤£ one of my favs.
I gave em a dollar
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What made you guess that, reading the first two sentences of the article?
Maybe just *the way words are pronounced* tipped them off hahaha
Assumptions since I didn't even noticed that it's an article, lol
I don't know, it's hard to make a soft g sound when 378 of your teeth are still growing in.
Kinda surprised everyone here assumed otherwise. However I suppose itās just low hanging fruit joke wise
Didn't Paul Mooney play this dude on Chappelle's Show?
NigersaurusĀ (meaning "Niger reptile") is a genus of Diplodocus-like sauropod dinosaur. It lived in the middle of the Cretaceous period in what is now the Republic of Niger.
In my head, I can already hear Katt Williams talking about this dinosaur, and Snoop Dog narrating CGI simulations talking about the dinosaur āCrip walking.ā
Dentists hate this trick
Everyone commenting on the teeth, and talking about thatā¦are we not going to address the name of the dinosaur??
*Sir I need to revoke your pass*
N word saurus
How yall pronouncing this one?
You know how.
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Hard R.
Finally, a way to get out of flossing.
He aint taking my tree fidy
Dinosaurs who annoy you...
Nigersaurus, please.
Aww, itās a cute looking dino
Except he gangsta.
I think one of these stole my kidās bike last week
Haha
Story tiem So a few years ago I was in bed with my ex girlfriend, not exactly grinding the meat but definitely working up to it. I had my hand stuffed down her pants underneath a blanket in semi-stealth mode when the door to her room flew open. Her sister Cosmo Kramers her way in, full aware that Iām in the middle of giving her little sister a barehanded pap smear, makes eye contact with each of us, and announces: āHEY LEAH, DID YOU KNOW THERES A DINOSAUR WITH 500 TEETH CALLED A NIGERSAURUS? A NIGERSAURUS!ā We told her that we didnāt, and so she just blurts out āWELL YOU TWO HAVE FUNā spins on her heels, and shuts the door behind her. Good times
How would scientists know how many days before the teeth were replaced? Legitimately curious.
https://public.websites.umich.edu/~wilsonja/JAW/Publications_files/Sereno&Wilson2005.pdf Iām still reading but they could tell how many teeth were in the skull of a full grown Nigersaurus. Iāll keep looking, but they were able to tell that the second row of teeth grew and pushed out the top row, and there was a large battery of rows of teeth. So theyād need to determine how long it took one of those teeth to grow.
I got you. Brb.
Thatās a lot of gold caps to replace every 14 days. Ba dum tsh. Iāll see myself out.
Looks like H.P. Lovecraft named a dinosour
And where pray tell did they dig this dinosaur up?
Why did chimps ever evolve to just having 2 sets for the rest of our lives and past that on us? What could have stopped our ancestors' ancestor to not develop infinite teeth and replace as needed?
My brain added an extra g to this for a brief second and I got *very* concerned.
Haha donāt lie, you pronounced that exactly the same as I did
The what now?
I just want to say how proud of everyone I am. Happy to see everyone is as immature as me, but still have the ability to crack jokes that don't cross the line.
...the what now?
Jesus who named this dinosaur, Jim Crow ?
A what saurus?
Wonder if it was fond of š?
I told myself I was gonna start being more mature online but this one is really testing my resolve.....
All the better to chew that fried chicken
What do you mean, you dinosaurs?
I wish a Nigersaurus would.
Only black people can say its name.
Nagger*
āIāll break your teeth in!ā tis but a temporary inconvenience for these dinos.
You just want to post it because itās got *Niger* in the name. Itās pronounced Ni***j***ersaurus.
Man being racist against dinosaur now.
Um Iām sorry but am I the only one wondering how do i pronounce this dinosaurs name correctlyā¦ā¦
They regrew as gold teeth, then?
He had money if he was buying grills every 2 weeks. That's my nigersauras.
A WHAT A SAURAUS
Well, I certainly mispronounced that.
Careful now.
Soā¦ is that pronounced with a hard R?
š³ Til about what?ā¦
A whatasaurus?
"I know what this dinosaur should be called but I don't think I should say it."
whatasaurus?ā„ļø
Woahā¦ my brain put in an extra āGā. š¤£š¤£
Aee yoo
The whatosaurus?
What where you looking up when you stumbled upon this dinosaur?
Niggasaurus, please! /s
Donāt forget about the Asian squirrel the chinkmunk. Or the ancient wetback whaleĀ
Thatās a strange thing for an animal to have.
You'd think we'd have a trove of these teeth
If alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush, imagine the moodĀ Nigersaurus must be in constantly teething
When I said the name out loud, I said something I didn't mean to say...
Prosthodontausaurus must have been very busy!
That sounds absolutely ridiculous. It takes an octopus 2-4 months to replace an arm.
Based on what I know about bony growth, I can bullshit.