Fossils of tiny, jawless marine animals reveal tooth structures sharper than sharks or steel, forcing scientists to rethink ...

Effective management of feline oral health requires a dual approach: rigorous home hygiene and professional veterinary ...

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 ...

[ Related: Butchered skulls point to Europe’s Ice Age cannibals. ] The study centers on the Zvejnieki cemetery site in northern Latvia. Dating back to about 7500 to 2500 BCE, more than 2,000 animal ...

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 ...

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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 ...

For many young mammals, stressful events are recorded in teeth and limb bones. When something particularly stressful, such as a period of malnourishment, happens, an individual’s body will stop ...

Your teeth wouldn’t do much against a woolly mammoth. But a saber-toothed cats’ teeth — those were perfectly evolved to take down such giant prey. All animals’ teeth evolved to help them survive.

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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 ...