{"id":6403,"date":"2018-11-07T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2018-11-24T17:31:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:31:16","slug":"rare-insight-into-ornithopod-dinosaur-tooth-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/rare-insight-into-ornithopod-dinosaur-tooth-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare insight into ornithopod dinosaur tooth evolution<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0205206\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PLOS One<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0November 7, 2018\u00a0\u00a014:00 ET <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2018-11\/p-tto103118.php\" target=\"_blank\">News release <\/a>from PLOS)<br \/>\nChangchunsaurus parvus, a small herbivorous dinosaur from Cretaceous China, had a unique way of replacing its teeth without disrupting the shearing surface of its teeth rows. The teeth also feature wavy enamel, once thought to have evolved later in the duck-billed dinosaurs. These features may have arisen as ornithopod dinosaurs specialized in eating plants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-authors: <\/strong>Robert Reisz, University of Toronto &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:robert.reisz@utoronto.ca\" target=\"_blank\">robert.reisz@utoronto.ca<\/a>; Aaron LeBlanc, University of Alberta &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:arl@ualberta.ca\" target=\"_blank\">arl@ualberta.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLOS One Published\u00a0November 7, 2018\u00a0\u00a014:00 ET (News release from PLOS) Changchunsaurus parvus, a small herbivorous dinosaur from Cretaceous China, had a unique way of replacing its teeth without disrupting the shearing surface of its teeth rows. The teeth also feature wavy enamel, once thought to have evolved later in the duck-billed dinosaurs. These features may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Fh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6411,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}