tooth marks
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Using both earlier research and their own findings, the team also created a guide for interpreting possible tooth marks on fossils.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
The scientists found little evidence of tooth marks on the dinosaur’s skeleton beyond the ribs Repenomamus had clamped down on.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 18, 2023
Meanwhile, in graves all over Greece, excavators have uncovered small, globular ceramic bottles with spouts, some with baby tooth marks on the spouts, Sneed reports in the paper.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 10, 2021
Honeycombed with tooth marks and placed, just so, on a little ledge, the wads look like slugs, snails, newts, cocoons or even a toppled image of the Virgin Mary.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2019
Ratwin launched herself overboard to catch fish, eventually filling a bucket, each fish bearing a small set of tooth marks.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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