noun. 1  a. Political division of an area into partially autonomous regions. 2  Loyalty to the interests of a particular region. 3  A feature, such as an expression, a pronunciation, or a custom, that is characteristic of a geographic area.  The use of regional characteristics, as of locale, custom, or speech, in literature or art.
The number of teeth dinosaurs had varied dramatically, depending on the type of dinosaur. Some dinosaurs, like Ornithomimus and Gallimimus, did not have teeth. On the other end of the spectrum, Tyrannosaurus rex had 50 to 60 solid cone-shaped teeth as big as bananas. Hadrosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs, had the most teeth: up to 960 cheek teeth! Dinosaur teeth were replaceable. If a dinosaur broke or lost a tooth, another grew in to take the place, behaving much like sharks teeth do today.
Anomalocaris canadensis looked like a strange blend of squid and shrimp. It was three feet (1.0 m) long, with a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth. Fossils found in China show that it was a massive undersea arthropod that lived about 500 million years ago.