A pediatric dentist and an anthropologist explain how baby teeth and adult teeth help humans chomp their food over a long ...

In archaeological sites across southern France and Spain, researchers have analyzed thousands of animal teeth dating back 8,000 years. These remains, especially molars from sheep and goats, show the ...

How the dental mold works: Researchers take impressions of fish teeth, using a fish called Polypterus as an example; (A) 3D model of the mold showing mandibular/lower side, maxillary/upper side, and ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

They look the same in ancient and modern arthropods, because they’re all making this mineralized layer that caps their soft tissue and helps them sense the environment,” Haridy said. It’s likely that ...