When most people think of ferocious, blade-like teeth on prehistoric creatures they picture Smilodon, better known as the saber-toothed tiger. But in the world of dinosaurs, theropods are well known for having blade-like ...
Teeth and hard structures called dermal odontodes are evolutionarily related, arising from the same developmental system, a new study published today in eLife shows.
Hibernation is a familiar feature on Earth today. Many animals鈥攅specially those that live close to or within polar regions鈥攈ibernate to get through the tough winter months when food is scarce, temperatures drop and days ...
The Dental Anthropology Group of the Centro Nacional de Investigaci贸n sobre la Evoluci贸n Humana (CENIEH), in collaboration with the paleoanthropologist Am茅lie Vialet of the Mus茅um National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) ...
The evolution of human teeth began among ancient armored fishes more than 400 million years ago. In the scientific journal Science, an international team led by researchers from Uppsala University presents groundbreaking ...
Archaeologists from Cardiff University and the University of Sheffield have combined the latest scientific methods to offer new insights into life during the Norman Conquest of England.
Northern bottlenose whales live in deep waters off the coast of Nova Scotia and southern Newfoundland. An endangered species, they were targets of a century of commercial whaling across the North Atlantic.
thanks to the analysis of 32 dental pieces using micro-computed tomography a team led by Cecilia Garc铆a Campos, a researcher in the Dental Anthropology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigaci贸n sobre la Evoluci贸n Humana, ...
Analysing 2500-year-old teeth has thrown open a window onto life and gender inequality during Bronze Age China.
Teeth damaged by trauma or disease require treatment to look and feel as good as new, but the restorative materials available to dentists don't always last and can be costly for patients.
