In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular cultural practice. These decorative ornaments that have been dug up in ...

How experts identify bites from sharks, toothy creatures, ... Tiger shark: Sharp, cutting teeth, similar to those of a bluefish, but bigger, characterize the tiger shark.

More than 2,000 animal teeth have been excavated from the graves at Zvejnieki, making it a prime location to study how ancient humans interacted with these materials.

Until recently, I did not fully appreciate fossil teeth. Their significance for identifying species and narrowing down the general diet of extinct animals was obvious, but I didn’t understand ...

LANSING, Mich. — Not even a lion is safe from a root canal. Ulana, a female African lion, underwent a root canal at the Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan, recently after a routine dental checkup.

But there was one tooth that he, Fiona and the scientists on the stall couldn’t immediately identify. “Looking for fossils is a really fun thing to do,” James says, “I enjoyed knowing that if I found ...