Contact: Dr. Mark Purnell
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University of Leicester
Caption: These are teeth from the upper jaw of a hadrosaur, Edmontosaurus. The specimen was molded and coated with gold for examination using a Scanning Electron Microscope to give high power magnification of the microscopic scratches.
Credit: Vince Williams, University of Leicester
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