movie maker have come under firebeforefor inaccurate portrayal of dinosaur and for using out-of-date science . A University of Toronto Mississauga palaeontologist has another potential discrepancy to add to that list : some dinosaurs may have had lips .
Robert Reisz , who demo his finding at the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology on Friday , argues thatwhile most artistic and scientific rendering of therapods such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex show large rows of sharp tooth amaze out , that was in all probability not the case .
Reisz looked to modern - day reptiles to suffice this question . These creatures take a thin layer of enamel on the tooth for security . Because lip are used to protect and drizzle the environment for teeth , usually creatures that spend their time in water do n’t need lips , such as crocodile . Teeth for land animals , such as monitoring equipment lizard , take different protections .
So we ’re probably not babble freehanded , pouty sass . Most likely , according to Reisz , these dinosaurs had thin , scaly lip .
“ In democratic civilisation , we imagine dinosaurs as more savage - looking , but that is not the case , ” he said .
[ University of Toronto ]
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