Do birds have teeth?

     Do birds have teeth? That is in some ways a trick question. Birds do not have true teeth. But they are born with one special “egg tooth”.  An egg tooth is a hard, tooth-like bump at the tip of the beak.
​     The egg tooth is the baby bird’s escape tool, used to break out of the egg shell.
It falls off shortly after hatching.   

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This penguin looks like it has teeth.  But what it really has are fleshy bristles that help the bird to grasp and swallow slippery fish. ​

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