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Dinosaur Teeth & Diets Training Center

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Dinosaur Teeth & Diets

Jawbone Arch is creaking because a tooth is missing — and a meat-eater's tooth in a plant-eater's jaw falls straight out. The fix is knowing who ate what.

What you're training for

At Jawbone Arch, an archway of fossil jaws needs its spare teeth slotted into the right owners before the span gives way. Train here first; prove it in the simulation.

The science

  • Meat-eaters carried sharp, blade-like, often serrated teeth — steak knives for cutting. Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Allosaurus.
  • Plant-eaters carried flat, pegged or leaf-shaped teeth for stripping and grinding — Diplodocus raked leaves with pegs; Triceratops sheared with a beak.
  • Paleontologists can read a diet from a single tooth, no skeleton required.
  • Tooth shape matching food is true today too — your own mouth carries cutting incisors and grinding molars, the omnivore's toolkit.

Teach it today — no prep

The mystery mouth. Students run their tongue along their own teeth and map which are for cutting and which for grinding — then decide what a scientist finding only a human molar would conclude about our diet. Follow with picture cards: sharp or flat, meat or plants, and the reason out loud.

Trained and ready? Prove it at Stop 5 — Jawbone Arch. Free, no logins, progress saved on the device.

Enter the Realm at Stop 5

Resources in this training center

Worksheets, reading passages, flashcards and printables for this lesson are being added — new resources land here first. Get one email a month when they do, or browse the whole free library.

The hands-on half: the Jurassic Attack Adventure Kit puts six real specimens, six Digs, six Gemlings and the Realm map in your students' hands — $19.99, or $15 a student for classrooms.

More Jurassic Attack training

Petrified Wood · Fossil Layers · Trace Fossils · Fossil Preservation · Dinosaur Teeth · Fossil Bone · Enter the Adventure →

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