A bizarre spatula-billed pterosaur with ridiculous amounts of teeth has been discovered in a German quarry.
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from Argentina may have even more teeth, this newly discovered species's mouth protrusions are strangely long and thin in comparison. The researchers compared these 480-plus teeth to the prongs of a nit comb. "What's even more remarkable is some of the teeth have a hook on the end, which we've never seen before in a pterosaur ever,""These small hooks would have been used to catch the tiny shrimp the pterosaur likely fed on – making sure they went down its throat and weren't squeezed between the teeth."
So instead of being chompers and tearers, these teeth were used more as traps. This suggests the meter-long-wing-spanned pterosaur must have been a filter feeder like baleen whales are today.
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