Dorien de Vries always asks for permission before flying across the world to touch someone else’s teeth. Some of the owners are anxious. Their teeth are fragile—irreplaceable. But de Vries, a ...

Subtle differences in teeth, jaws, and inner ear bones point to evolutionary adaptations for mammaliaforms. While eyes are said to be mirrors of the soul, for paleontologists, teeth are sometimes the ...

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Earth’s earliest mammals spent their lives at a more leisurely pace than their modern counterparts, but they lived a lot longer, analysis of some 200-million-year-old teeth has shown. Using X-ray ...

Scientists have described the earliest known example of dentary bone with two rows of cusps on molars and double-rooted teeth. The new findings offer insight into mammal tooth evolution, particularly ...

Elis Newham received funding from the NERC and EPSRC as part of his PhD project at the University of Southampton. He is now funded by a Knowledge Transfer Secondment from the EPSRC. Pam Gill received ...

A team of paleontologists and engineers has found that duck-billed dinosaurs had an amazing capacity to chew tough and abrasive plants with grinding teeth more complex than those of cows, horses, and ...