History Main / ToothyBird

** All of the ducks, geese, and chickens in ''WesternAnimation/TheDucktators'' have teeth.

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
** [[BigEater Chica the Chicken]] from has ''two'' sets of teeth. First ones are part of her suit and seconds ones are part of the inner machinery.

* ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' portrays its ''Pteranodon'' with a beak filled with sharp teeth. While many pterosaurs did have teeth, ''Pteranodon'' was ''not'' one of them (with its name literally translating into "''toothless'' wing"). They also contradict the appearance of the ''Pteranodon'' in the films before and after it, which are accurately portrayed as being toothless. [[PteroSoarer This isn't even close to the only error of their depiction either.]]

* Vlad Vladikoff from ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'' is an example of the "always has teeth" variant. That being said, the teeth he has are fairly realistic as far as what bird teeth looked like (see below).

Similar to NoMouth, where a mouth appears only when the character is speaking. See also CartoonyEyes, MouthyBird, and FeatherFingers. For the record, actual toothed birds existed (once) and were once known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odontornithes Odontolcae or Odontotormae]], depending on how their teeth are set, until it was realized that many of these birds were no more closely related to each other than to modern birds.

The tendency of illustrators to give humanlike teeth to birds and other animals that lack them in RealLife. '''NOTE''': This trope can apply to all animals that don't normally have teeth, not just birds.

** When grinning, Gilda the griffon gains not only teeth but also lips extending far beyond her beak. [[UncannyValley It's better not to think about it too hard]]. This applies to other griffon and hippogriff characters as well.

* In ''Literature/TheEnchantedForestChronicles'' one of the [[EyeOfNewt ingredients for a spell]] Cimorene is trying to cast is hen's teeth and she has no idea how to find such a thing. She eventually acquires some through a genie wish, leaving it up in the air whether a species of toothy chickens exists somewhere in the world.

* WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup is a non-anthro dog with very un-doglike teeth (that are pretty creepy). Especially noticeable in "Canine Caddy", where the gopher and MickeyMouse are drawn with species appropriate buck teeth, but Pluto still has a mouth full of teeth that all look like incisors or flat molars.

** In the fourth movie, Ichy, a bird, has a set of teeth. The trope is justified in this case, since he is an ''Ichthyornis'', a prehistoric bird which did have teeth in real life.
** Guido, the ''Microraptor'' from the penultimate ''Land Before Time'' movie is a sort of ''inversion''. He looks like your usual toothy bird, only having teeth in certain instances. He really should have had teeth the whole time. Sharp ones. He also lacked the big toe claw that microraptors had. The movie acted like he was just a weird-looking modern bird instead of the tiny deinonychosaur that he was.
** Turning to more regularly-occurring characters, there is Petrie the ''Pteranodon'' who has also been known to summon a set of pearly whites on occasion. While some pterosaurs had teeth, ''Pteranodon'' did not; in fact, the species' name literally translates to "toothless wing".

* The Gang makes one for Charlie as a birthday gift in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', going off a picture of a ToothyBird he had drawn in his dream journal. Charlie, being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} of the highest order, has to ask whether the bird is real.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge''': Verne the Turtle has a full set of white teeth (possibly to [[InkSuitActor give more resemblance to his VA]] Garry Shandling).

* Fagin the evil buzzard from “War of the Birds” has fangs during his more menacing moments.

** Quackerjack from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' always has teeth. Negaduck has also been seen with them. Darkwing (Negaduck's not-so-evil twin) can display them for a shiny smile, or to pull something open with them. At one point, while hamming it up introducing a story, Gosalyn flashes some fangs.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': As a Sky Bison, Appa has teeth, but bizarrely all of them look like molars.

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* ''Archaeopteryx'', one of the earliest birds to appear in the fossil record, had teeth, making it the UrExample. These were lost, along with certain other features like bony tails, in the Neornithes, the group that contains all modern birds. Other toothy birds (the "Enantiorns") also existed during the Mesozoic. The reason only toothless birds exist today is because a few species of toothless birds survived the K-T extinction versus none of the toothed species.
** It should be noted that toothy Mesozoic birds would have had toothy snouts rather than the cartoony, toothed beaks. Even in the ones that did have beaks ''and'' teeth (''Ichthyornis'' and ''Hesperornis'', for example), the beak and teeth did not occupy the same space. Because the beak is a keratinous structure like hair, feathers, scales and nails, it is anatomically impossible for (actual) teeth (an enamel-based structure) to grow ''on'' the beak. Another early bird, ''Aurornis'', was comparatively more bird-like but still had a toothed snout.
* Dromaeosaurids such as ''Velociraptor'' were a far cry from their [[RaptorAttack scaly, reptilian depictions in film,]] and in real life would have resembled this trope, basically looking like a flightless, fully-feathered hawk with a long tail and a toothed snout instead of a beak.
* Many plant-eating dinosaurs have a beak in the front of the mouth, but a set of teeth in the back. Some, most notably hadrosaurs or duck-billed dinosaurs, have ''hundreds'' of these teeth for grinding plants. It is now theorized that sauropods may have had a pseudo-beak or keratinous sheath on the mouth, giving the look of a toothy beak.
* Wacky genetics: [[http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/06/04/teeth.birds/ Scientists have grown chicken embryos with teeth in hopes that it may lead to a breakthrough against baldness.]]
** French for "when pigs fly" is "When chicken have teeth" (''"Quand les poules auront des dents"''). CueTheFlyingPigs much?
* The deep ocean squid species ''Promachoteuthis sulcus'' looks like it has human teeth. Actually, it's an optical illusion created by the squid's teeth-like lips, but that doesn't make it [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/hUAcgeQvRj98D6JI4h45m5ZiiCSKHFNbgLF3fztRIbf6gSq0SX7GzNY98pVo0lnU6RGx4-PuFGaAmnJZMCrTJ5IdohUUoANBkLBdDS3o5UUmmVU any less creepy looking.]]
* Saw-billed ducks, also known as mergansers, are a weird example, as their bills have serrations on the inside edges to help them grip slippery fish. Not true teeth, but their function is similar. From the side, an open-beaked duck looks as if it has a set of minature shark teeth.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa-nalo Moa-nalo,]] extinct large ducks that lived on Hawaii till around the beginning of the 2nd millennium. Related to mergansers, but a different subfamily. They filled the ecological niche of goats and deer and some of them evolved impressive "pseudoteeth".
* The toothlike serrations inside a penguin's mouth, also used to grip fish, are #3 of ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19871_the-7-most-terrifying-mouths-in-nature_p2.html 7 Most Terrifying Mouths in Nature.]]
* Ducks have tooth-like structures on the sides of their bill called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecten_%28biology%29 pecten,]] which are used for preening and straining food from the water.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagornithidae Pelagornithids]] were large extinct seabirds that had prominent tooth-like serrations on their beaks. They may actually share a molecular origin with true teeth, but at any rate were rather fragile and probably used to grasp extremely soft bodied prey like squids.
* Many birds are born with a single toothlike structure in the front of the beak. It's called an egg tooth and is used to break the eggshell during hatching. Some turtles and toothless reptiles/amphibians share this trait. It disappears as the chick grows.
* Whereas the modern platypus is totally toothless, its Miocene relative ''[[http://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2013/11/obdurodon-prehistoric-animal-of-week.html Obdurodon]]'' is considered unusual amongst paleontologists for having teeth. Other extinct monotremes also had teeth... but no beaks.[[note]]It is also worth noting that monotreme "beaks" are not structurally similar to keratinous bird beaks: essentially they are just naked flesh. Ergo animals like ''Obdurodon'' probably did look like cartoony toothed birds, with flat human-like teeth within a "beak".[[/note]]
* According to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} That Other Wiki]]:
-->''The Gorilla Foundation briefly played home to a male green-winged macaw of mysterious origin who had been found inhabiting the grounds and feeding on the loquat trees, though he was not a pet of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla) Koko's]] in the same way her cats were. Initially frightened of the parrot, Koko named him "Devil Tooth", "devil" presumably coming from his being mostly red, and "tooth" for his fierce-looking white beak; the human staff adjusted the name to "Devil Beak", and ultimately to "DB".''
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* Chicken in ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken''.

* The humanoid birds from ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}: Nobita and the Winged Braves'' often display teeth. While they are evolved birds, it may be just one-off gags as they normally don't have teeth.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagornithidae Pelagornithids]] were large extinct seabirds that had prominent tooth-like serrations on their beaks.

* Whereas the modern platypus is totally toothless, its Miocene relative ''[[http://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2013/11/obdurodon-prehistoric-animal-of-week.html Obdurodon]]'' is considered unusual amongst paleontologists for having teeth.

* The University of Louisville Cardinal has teeth.