Carnivore teeth

Herbivore vs Carnivore teeth. A prime example of how are dental structure is designed and what that means for our diet!

I did a research paper on vegetarianism when I first decided to try this diet in college... turns out man's teeth are made more like that of an herbivore than that of an omnivore.

Carnivore or Herbivore - By Looking at Teeth

Our earliest ancestors ate a diet of raw food that required immense energy to digest. But once we started eating nutrient-rich meat, our energy-hungry brains began growing and our guts began to shrink. Cooking that food not only made it safer, but also easier to digest.

Dinosaur Teeth Comparison: meat eating vs plant eating

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▸Tᴇᴇᴛʜ◂ Teeth are great. They come in so many shapes and sizes to fit the needs of a particular creature. Hyena's teeth are designed to hold and crush. They have the strongest recorded bite of any carnivorous land mammal on top of that. All that to get to the tasty bone marrow.

Three-dimensional buccal-occlusal and occlusal reconstructions of two carnivoran tooth rows (red fox and giant panda) and two rodent tooth rows (golden-bellied water rat and Rothschild’s woolly rat) for the GIS analysis. Determination of surface orientation (orientation indicated by colour as shown on the colour wheel) allows the measurement of OPC (the number of coloured patches is indicated under each figure). These measures are compared with diets (carnivorous and herbivorous).