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 ...

An artist’s illustration of what the Zvejnieki cemetery in norther Latvia might have looked like during the Stone Age © Tom Björklund When piecing together the ...

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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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.

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 ...

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 ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.