In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular ...

While most adult humans have 32 permanent teeth, or 28 if your wisdom teeth don’t behave, you might be surprised to learn that the animal world has us well and truly beat when it comes to the ...

Compared with human teeth, Komodo dragon enamel is incredibly thin, says LeBlanc. Along the serrations, the enamel is only 20 micrometres thick – about a quarter of the thickness of a human hair.

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to cold and other extremes. CNN values your feedback 1.

When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such ...

A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth. Our teeth evolved from the piercing “body armor” of extinct fish ...

The pig’s mouth revealed its ordinary sharp, tusk-like canines saddled up beside smaller, slightly more human-looking teeth nubs. In theory, a similar process could play out in humans.

Even though giraffes are huge — they are the tallest land animals, after all — they have the same number of teeth as humans do: 32! This is one of the only similarities between ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to cold and other extremes.