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I went to Sea World today and while I was watching the Shamu show the
trainer described the Killer Whale as having conical teeth that enabled it to
tear and rip. I thought conical teeth that tear and rip? I thought they were
just for catching fish. Then I got thinking, sure Killer Whales eat fish, and
penguins in one gulp, but they also attack and rip up large seals, sea lions, walruses,
sharks (saw an attack on the news a few years ago, very interesting) and
whales. Granted it was just a trainer and I don’t know his extent of actually
Killer Whale anatomy other than what he is suppose to memorize for the show. I
wonder if there has been studies on this tear and rip? Spinosaurids have conical teeth, larger than Killer Whales, they to
could rip up their meal (had to at some point, at least it’s larger meals). The
teeth are more tightly packed and the largest teeth are at the front of the jaw
as oppose to toward the middle in other theropods. Some thing to look into?
Perhaps they ripped holes into sauropods? Tracy L. Ford P. O. Box 1171 Poway Ca
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