Saturday 19 May 2012

Prehistoric Animals : Ceropod Dinosaurs



Ceropod Dinosaurs
Ceropod dinosaurs were all plant-eaters and include the horned and duck-billed dinosaurs. The secret of their success was in their teeth. These were much more efficient at grinding up plant food than your typical dinosaur's dentition, so cerapods were able to extract more nutritional value from their food and tackle plants that others found too tough to digest. It wasn't until big herbivorous mammals evolved that such efficient chewing teeth were seen again on Earth.
Scientific name: Cerapoda
Common names:horn foot