Many of us will have had a tooth pulled in the dentist chair, either under local or general anesthetic, and even with modern ...

Analyses revealed a unique pattern in which back teeth matured more slowly than front teeth in the specimen's first five years. This pattern, combined with an observed reliance on adult caregivers, ...

Anglerfish have invisible fangs, narwhal tusks are extra-long canines, and more facts from the weird and wonderful study of ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

It’s the late Jurassic Period in the super continent of Laurasia, some 85 million years into the reign of the dinosaurs. The ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...