About 42,000 years ago, the Neanderthals — the stocky cousins of modern humans — fashioned tiny jewelry beads from animal teeth, shells and ivory, a new study finds. The finding is momentous, as it ...

The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While our teeth are ...

The world's oldest artwork, dated to 540,000 years ago, was created using one or more shark teeth, as well as a mollusk shell, according to a new finding. The art itself consists of etchings on a pale ...

(CN) – Using charts of digitally rendered models of present-day animal teeth, researchers have created a new way for scientists to learn about the diets of extinct animals from fossil records in hopes ...

SANIBEL, Fla. — No, birds don’t have teeth, but when they hatch they do have an “egg tooth.” A great horned owlet that fell from its nest was recently admitted to the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of ...

When we think about wildlife, we usually notice a bird’s bright colours, a predator’s speed, or a mammal’s size. But there’s one feature we often overlook– teeth. For many animals, teeth aren’t just ...

This lopsided dentition, combined with the unusual ability to move the sides of their jaws independently, enables them to ...