Pretty interesting find. (Not completely sure if this is the right community for this- let me know if you know where else it would be a good fit!)
Pretty interesting find. (Not completely sure if this is the right community for this- let me know if you know where else it would be a good fit!)
The coating being orange indicates it is reacting with oxygen, aka rusting.
They aren’t shiny silver plated teeth.
Had to look this up yesterday as I had thought the same. In rodents anyway, the orange color is from amino acids, not the iron in their teeth.
Where did you find a source that it was from amino acids?
This one says the orange is from the iron
Wikipedia’s citationed summary confirms it is orange due to the the iron
rust of soft tho, it doesn’t like to bond with each other