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gastric mill::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gizzard, ventriculus |
| Type of | pocket, pouch |
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gastric mill
The gastric mill could therefore have developed in the ancestral line of birds.
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In that kind of gastric mill the stones would have been very worn and would not have a smoothly polished surface.
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Zanno and Makovicky also found that a toothless beak only evolved in lineages known to have had a gastric mill for grinding plants.
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Some herbivorous birds which have a toothless beak, such as ostriches, solve the problem with what is known as a gastric mill.
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In lineages where a gastric mill is not yet known, such as the bizarre, sickle-clawed therizinosaurs, the species retain teeth at the back of the mouth for shredding plant material.
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There is another group of dinosaurs, however, whose remains of gastric stones can be linked up with a birdlike gastric mill, according to Oliver Wings'research.
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