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Ok I know I'm not even in the same league as most of you here as to your knowledge of fossils etc.... Standing outside in the rain looking through the window ..... Though I know there's no stupid questions ! I really have some questions about how people can identify a dinosaur's tooth as to which species & not confusing them for another species, be it adult vs juvenile dinosaurs. - Aside from riping the tooth out from a skull - where's your proof it was THIS species ? - Then it brings up, why would you take a tooth out of a skull section, which if left the tooth in skull section would bring more $$$$ - Also brings up the tooth root issue, the root is a soft membrane. How did this root & tooth survive but not the skull jaw section ? I know stranger things can happen. - There's a lot of teeth for sale but not a lot skull/ jaw sections....why is that ? - Is it possible people mistake a juvenile tooth of this species for a adult tooth of this species, or mistake this adult tooth for a juvenile tooth of this species that's of another species ? - Seems like only certain species of teeth are up for sale, ok well what happened to all the other dinosaur species......they no longer had teeth or what ? is it name the tooth that brings $$$ - thousands of dinosaurs if not maybe a million, yet only handful of species are up for sale normally......makes me wonder..... In short where's the proof that tooth is from that species, & please explain to me why there's a tooth & root but no skull/ jaw section !