Labels:mammal | text | animal | skull | fossil | bone | dinosaur OCR: CARNIVORE JAWS ONE GROUP of dinosaurs, the theropods, was exclusively flesh-eating. Most theropods had long jaws with backward-curving, sharp teeth that were replaced when they wore down or fell out. The biggest theropods had huge skulls largely built of bony struts. They used their strong jaws and teeth to rip chunks of flesh from prey. HOLLOWS IN THE SKULL Reduced its overall weight HINGED LOWER JAW Bulged outward to take in huge chunks of meat ALLOSAURUS JAWS Like all big theropods, Allosaurus could open its ja ws CURVED, wide to swallow lumps of flesh. SERRATED TEETH
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