Can Skull Shape and Function Determine What Kind of Food was on Prehistoric Plates?

Can Skull Shape and Function Determine What Kind of Food was on Prehistoric Plates?
A chart depicting the skull shapes of the skunk, raccoon, wolf, leopard, mongoose, the extinct relatives, the Oodectes, and the Thinocyn, and their comparative bites and stress areas.

When paleontologists put together a life history for a long-extinct animal, it’s common to infer the foods it ate by looking at modern animals with similar skull shapes and tooth patterns. But this practice is far from foolproof. New modeling and tests based on living species done at the American Museum of Natural History show that the link between animal diets and skull biomechanics is complex, with a stronger influence from ancestry than previously thought.