Iron-coated Komodo dragon teeth and the complex dental enamel of carnivorous reptiles

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Fun fact: Komodo dragons are the largest predatory lizards. They have serrated, blade-shaped teeth with iron-coated tips helping them demolish prey as big as buffalo www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.imperial.ac.uk/news/255014/...

Would we know that for Komodo dragons (which clearly are what I made the claim for)? Yes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... :D

Sorry for the delay this week! Back to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow! Really excited about this one, as the owner of a small but might Ackie monitor named Mushu. Here's some reading! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.biorxiv.org/content/10…

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