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Your morning start for Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021
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Fun fact: There existed a dinosaur with more than 500 teeth

According to American paleontologist Paul Sereno, the Nigersaurus was a 30-foot-long plant-eating dinosaur that lived 110 million years ago in what is now Niger’s Sahara Desert.

Sereno notes that the Nigersaurus had a delicate skull with an extremely wide mouth that was lined with teeth adapted for browsing through plants close to the ground.

“This bizarre, long-necked dinosaur is characterized by its unusually broad, straight-edged muzzle tipped with more than 500 replaceable teeth,” he writes.

He also highlighted that the Nigersaurus’s fossil skull is one of the first dinosaur skulls to be digitally reconstructed from CT scans.

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Former social worker Robert Riley Saunders pleaded guilty to three out of 13 criminal charges in a Kelowna courtroom, on Monday morning, Sept. 27.

Saunders pleaded guilty to stealing from and harming at-risk youth in his care, forging a university diploma and breaching trust as a public official.

Saunders is accused of stealing money from at-risk youth in his care, many of whom are Indigenous.

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