Georgiacetus Vogtlensis: Case Study

The robust australopithecines or paranthropines had a curved face with a arch for the cheek bones that are formed by connecting the zygomatic and the temporal bones together. The robust australopithecines had a bone ridge on top of their skull called a sagittal crest, which is also attached to the jaw muscles. They had a flexable base just above were their jaw bone connected to their cheek bone. With their really large back teeth (below the cheek bone) the robust australopithecines fossils were known to the researchers as the “nutcracker man”. They used these really large back teeth to eat tough foods and nuts. And their teeth in the front were smaller.

In the upper levels we see a number of fragmented bone which may suggest that they began to eat more from each animal killed. Perhaps animals became scarce therefore they began to explore the taste of bone marrow.

To avoid this, the saber-tooth and other La Brea predators would spend more time with their prey animal carcasses, eating them more closely even at the risk of tooth damage.

blend with its environment, or the sharp talons and beaks of birds of prey so well suited for predation.

jaw structure. The teeth are actually modified, enlarged placoid scales. The teeth aren’t anchored in the jaw; they are just embedded on the gums. Unfortunately, when the great white shark eats on its prey, it sometimes loses or breaks the tooth by the flesh. Luckily, sharks have developed a special feature that enables it to replace its missing tooth. They have developed rows of teeth, each tooth moving up to replace the missing one. A whole broken row of teeth can be replenished, just like a conveyor belt. Each tooth, though, has a different shape, changing according to its necessity. The great white has triangular, serrated-edged teeth anywhere from one to two inches long. With this feature, the shark is able to tear through the flesh for its meal. The jaw of the shark is made up of strong bone tissue. It must be very powerful because the shark is designed for feeding.

My critter is fish. The name of the fish is called the Goldfish Saurus meaning it is half dinosaur and half guppy. This type of fish is a hunting fish, it mainly eats and kills tiny animals. It lives in the deep seas of the Pacific Oceans. The Goldfish Saurus hibernate for half a year, it likes to sleep in little burrows of seaweed. The Goldfish Saurus eats small fish and baby octopi and squids that is smaller than itself. It kills its prey by using the scaly fins on top of his back to directly jab its opponent. For self defence the Goldfish Saurus The tail of the Goldfish Saurus is very strong and its function is to move forward in upward swimming strokes. This kind of fish moves pretty quickly and catches its prey instantly. The Goldfish

robustus do not have any teeth marks. This shows R. robustus simply swallowed an egg. In comparison, the professor in the lecture claims that R. robustus had a powerful jew, but it did not used its back teeth. It might swallowed hole or big part of its prey instead of biting. We should not expect to find teeth marks on bones of its prey. This is yet another example of how the author of the reading passage and the professor contradict one

The biggest prehistoric shark to ever live was the Megaloden. Megaloden also known as big tooth was considered to be one of the largest and most powerful aggressive apex predators in the history of the world. The megalodon shark weighs almost 100 tons and their body size was 60 feet to 18 meters long. These sharks were considered to be bigger than the average great white shark. The megalodon teeth were gigantic, some found to be over 7 inches long. Fossils record as shown that the tooth of the Megalodon petrified the tongues of dragons and giant snakes. Megaloden shark bite is so massive that it chomp it prey into 18 tons of force, compared to that white bite is less than 2 tons of forces. Megaloden body is consists mainly of cartilage.

Although the professor opposes this by saying that agnostids population was so large and they were found in vast amounts that could have killed the animal they were living on. We learned from the professor that agnostids enormous population rules out the possibility that they have been

The article states that several theories about how agnostids ate and behaved. However, the professor explains that each of these theories is very weak and refutes each of reasons of support.

Teeth arrangement of an omnivorous (Eats both vegetation and meat) browsing mammal: three molars, four premolars, one canine and three incisors on each

Marley Stonebender should have known a creature with that many teeth would have a taste for meat. And that, in most circumstances, proved fine in the wide scheme of things. But the gapping grin revealing those teeth was anything but friendly and Marley felt quite partial to the meat attached to his old bones.

Long strong jaw bones and

Cnidarians were the first animals to have a mouth and a stomach, and as a result, they became the first active carnivorous predators (but not hunters, they catch prey that encounters their tentacles). Their mouths also act as their anus, as it expels waste after

Hagfish have been around for many years, evan before the dinosaurs, with a gross but interesting defence. Slime gross but true, they have tiny holes in the side when fish bite hagfish they send out slime clogging the mouth and the fish chokes on the slime. If the slime doesn't work they tie themselves to a knot. They have no jaws, they still are able to eat. They go into dead fish and eat the soft meat on the inside. If I found a hagfish I would make it my pet or keep it for science and study its