Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s view of what the area of the Zvejnieki cemetery (present-day northern Latvia) might have looked like when animal parts ...

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 ...

As humans we need to clean our teeth regularly to prevent cavities, while animals seem to have healthy teeth without using toothbrushes or toothpaste. With humans, we need to clean our teeth regularly ...

When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such as tools, bones, and pottery. Experimental archaeologists, however, go a ...

An artist’s view of what the area of the Zvejnieki cemetery (northern Latvia) might have looked like when animal parts were processed in the cooking pits. The research centers on the Zvejnieki ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method similar to modern slow cooking to extract animal teeth for jewellery, archaeologists have found. Researchers from the University of York and University of ...

Do you think teeth are boring or gross? From the iron-laden teeth of Komodo dragons to the horns on unicorns of the sea, the animal kingdom is filled with marvelous dental adaptations that will have ...

Human teeth, as well as those of domesticated animals, are much harder to date as well, in large part because they have less stressful lives, she said. "We've got domestic dog teeth we can't age ...

Whether you’re talking about sharks, crocodiles, lions, or even velociraptors, some of the most fearsome traits of these predators involve their rows of sharp, crushing, or jagged teeth. Only ...

New research shows that conodonts, extinct eel-like marine animals, possessed tooth elements sharper than those of any living vertebrate. Using high-resolution microscopy, scientists measured tip ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...