NEW: Dinos didn’t have scary exposed teeth. Lips covered them.

RJ Hamster

2 years ago

Thursday, March 30, 2023

In today’s newsletter, we discover what Jurassic Park got wrong, visit Mexico’s ‘forgotten’ panda, gape at the Taj Mahal and Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock … and capture an award-winning image.

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That heart-pounding, jaw-opening, teeth-exposing moment in Jurassic Park?

Nope. Never happened in real life, researchers now say. Moist lips covered those fearsome teeth, which were smaller than depicted, with thin enamel (see the lower models above). Yep, even the mighty T. rex, despite its car-chomping, outhouse-busting Jurassic depiction, needed to hydrate.

How come we didn’t know about this until now? Why don’t dino descendants like crocs have lips? Is Spielberg going to have to reshoot the movie?

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