For an animal that already looks assembled from spare parts, the platypus has added another twist to its history. Fossils ...

Fossils reveal an ancient platypus species (Obdurodon insignis) that still had teeth, offering insight into how this unusual ...

While humans only have 2 sets of teeth in a lifetime, some members of the animal kingdom have a rare tooth-regenerating ability. Certain species can replace broken or lost teeth multiple times ...

Two new studies sequencing proteins from ancient animal teeth have pushed back the oldest studied proteins by millions of years—with one of the papers describing proteins from the tooth of an extinct ...

A new study published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences revealed the techniques used by prehistoric communities in north-eastern Europe to extract animal teeth for crafting ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

You probably don’t think much about teeth until a dentist brings them up. But across the animal kingdom, tooth counts can get wild fast. Some sharks go through thousands in a lifetime. Slugs carry ...

Losing your baby teeth is a strange experience. The teeth gradually loosen until they’re replaced by thicker, more durable and permanent ones. But humans aren’t the only animals capable of shedding ...

An artist’s view of what the area of the Zvejnieki cemetery (northern Latvia) might have looked like when animal parts were processed in the cooking pits. The research centers on the Zvejnieki ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown. It has long ...