James Clark, Dinosaur Discoverer

December 6, 2018
James Clark

Ronald Weintraub Professor of Biology James Clark found a new species of dinosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis, that lost its baby teeth in adolescence and did not grow another set as adults. The finding, published in Current Biology, is a radical change in public understanding of lifespan anatomy and may help to explain how birds evolved from dinosaurs and why birds have beaks but no teeth.