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Pain in the neck
Re the spinosaur tooth lodged in the neck of an ornithocheirid.
This is a very efficient response to the problem of what to do if you are
a piscivorous spinosaur and someone keeps nicking your fish - eat the
competition.
Alternatively, this might have been a 'dare' that went tragically wrong.
Apparently, ornithocheirids had a rather crude sense of humour.
Toodle pip,
Dave
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David M. Unwin PhD
Institut fur Palaontologie, MUSEUM FUR NATURKUNDE
Zentralinstitut der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
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Email: david.unwin@rz.hu-berlin.de
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