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Book 31, Question 3

Why do birds have no teeth?

Teeth are heavy, and a flying animal does best when it stays light.

Birds use a lightweight beak instead, and their strong gizzard does the chewing deeper inside. Their long-ago ancestors had teeth, and fossils show it. Over millions of years, birds lost them, and a tiny egg tooth that falls off soon after hatching is all that is left.

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