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

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A 2021 study out of Japan showed how targeting genes can regrow teeth in animals. Now, the team has ...

We share our sharp canine teeth with lions, hippos, and other mammals. But believe it or not, they have nothing to do with tearing into meat. Instead, our ancestors originally used them to fight for ...

Studies of ancient skulls show wider jaws and fewer malocclusions, leading researchers to explore how diet and lifestyle shaped the human face. Photograph by Alan/Adobe Stock Braces, rubber bands, ...

Dental researchers from Tufts University took cells from the dental pulp of a human tooth and mixed them with cells from the enamel of a pig tooth and seeded them onto a “scaffold.” It was then grown ...

Our ancestors probably loved to eat potatoes, even though their teeth weren’t cut out for the task. That’s the finding of a new study co-authored by a University of Calgary professor, which has ...

It's native to four Indonesian islands, where it preys on mammals such as wild pigs and water buffalo … plus occasionally even humans. It was already known that Komodo dragon teeth are similar to ...

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