Animal Teeth and Diet

What do an animals’ teeth tell us about its diet?

• An animal's teeth have NO relation to its diet.

• An animal's teeth can tell us about its habitat.
• An animal's teeth shape can provide information about its diet.

This is a fish skull. Would this fish likely have been a herbivore or carnivore? Why?

• herbivore

• pescatarian
• carnivore

Would this be a skull of a herbivore or carnivore? Look at the back teeth.

• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Omnivore
• Insectivore

What about this one—herbivore, omnivore or carnivore? Why?

What about this one—herbivore, omnivore or carnivore?

• Unknown
• Carnivore
• Omnivore
• Herbivore

This is the skull of a animal that became extinct about 15,000 years ago. Do you think it was an herbivore, carnivore or omnivore and why?