DinoFact
Dinosaur Teeth and Claws
Facts about dinosaur teeth, claws, jaws and bites — from bone-crushing T. rex teeth to scythe-like claws.
- Many dinosaurs had sharp claws.
- Iguanodon means 'iguana tooth'.
- Compsognathus means 'pretty jaw'.
- Deinonychus means 'terrible claw'.
- Some dinosaurs had hundreds of teeth.
- T. rex could open its jaws very wide.
- A T. rex tooth could be as big as a banana.
- Sabre-toothed cats never met any dinosaurs.
- Sharp-edged teeth helped slice through meat.
- Incisivosaurus had buck teeth like a rodent.
- Some dinosaurs used their claws to grab prey.
- T. rex teeth were thick and could crush bone.
- Flat teeth usually mean a dinosaur ate plants.
- Some dinosaurs had beaks with no teeth at all.
- Mononykus had a single stubby claw on each arm.
- Atrociraptor was a small, sharp-toothed raptor.
- Velociraptor had a big curved claw on each foot.
- Dromaeosaurus was a sharp-toothed little raptor.
- Deinonychus had a large sickle claw on each foot.
- Some dinosaur claws were as long as kitchen knives.
- Segnosaurus was a big-clawed plant-eating dinosaur.
- A T. rex tooth was bigger than a grown-up's finger.
- Meat-eaters' teeth often had little saw-like edges.
- Some meat-eaters had teeth shaped like steak knives.
- Some dinosaurs could regrow teeth their whole lives.
- Some dinosaur teeth were as small as grains of rice.
- Sharp, pointy teeth usually mean a dinosaur ate meat.
- Therizinosaurus had claws longer than a person's arm.
- A meat-eater's claws could be curved and razor-sharp.
- If a dinosaur lost a tooth, a new one could grow back.
- Tiny tools and even toothbrushes help dig out fossils.
- Beipiaosaurus was a feathered, big-clawed plant-eater.
- Megaraptor had large claws on its hands, not its feet.
- Some dinosaurs lost teeth in fights and grew new ones.
- A dinosaur's worn teeth can show what it liked to eat.
- Heterodontosaurus had several different kinds of teeth.
- Gastroliths worked like teeth inside a dinosaur's belly.
- Masiakasaurus had strange teeth that stuck straight out.
- A fossil can be just a single tooth or a whole skeleton.
- Erlikosaurus was a big-clawed plant-eater from Mongolia.
- Falcarius was an early big-clawed plant-eating dinosaur.
- Lycorhinus was a small plant-eater with fang-like teeth.
- Plant-eating dinosaurs often had blunt claws for walking.
- Nigersaurus had a wide mouth with hundreds of tiny teeth.
- Shuvuuia was a tiny feathered dinosaur with one big claw.
- Velociraptor was a small, feathered, sharp-clawed hunter.
- T. rex had one of the strongest bites of any land animal.
- Nanshiungosaurus was a big-clawed plant-eater from China.
- Carcharodontosaurus had teeth like a shark's and was huge.
- Therizinosaurus had the longest claws of any known animal.
- A dinosaur's claw could be the size of a banana or bigger.
- Balaur was a stocky island raptor with double sickle claws.
- The biggest meat-eater teeth could be longer than your hand.
- Therizinosaurus had the longest claws of any animal we know.
- Baryonyx had a big claw thought to be used for catching fish.
- Byronosaurus was a slender, sharp-toothed bird-like dinosaur.
- Archaeopteryx had wings and feathers but also teeth and a tail.
- Haplocheirus was an early relative of the one-clawed dinosaurs.
- Harpymimus was an early ostrich-like dinosaur with a few teeth.
- Lanzhousaurus had some of the largest plant-eating teeth known.