The vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) actually has fewer teeth than most bats.
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Bill Schutt (Algonquin Books)
Our evolutionary history is marked by the bite of teeth: not just the vestiges of the branching of mammals, but the evolution of a wide range of animals, extinct and living, backboned and non-backboned, has been shaped, gnawed, bitten, crunched by teeth. Teeth are destiny.
This is one of zoologist Bill Schutt’s most striking ideas. Bite: The history of sharp teeth, from hagfish to humans – A fascinating record of teeth across a range of species…
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