While most adult humans have 32 permanent teeth, or 28 if your wisdom teeth don’t behave, you might be surprised to learn ...

Utterly charming, otters are web-footed animals that inhabit rivers and seas around North America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and ...

What is known about megalodons comes from their teeth, with more information consistently being discovered about the massive ...

As far as vertebrates go, sharks are among the toothiest. Whale sharks, which may be big but are hardly alpha predators, can have more than 3,000 teeth, but they are only the size of a tear drop.Great ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in ...

While all types of ancient remains are valuable to science, teeth— protected by enamel, the hardest substance in the body—are ...

Most carnivores have teeth to grasp and eat prey, so marine animals with teeth are not uncommon. Sharks, dolphins, eels, whales, many fish species, and marine mammals like seals and sea lions have ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to cold and other extremes.

While most adult humans have 32 permanent teeth, or 28 if your wisdom teeth don’t behave, you might be surprised to learn that the animal world has us well and truly beat when it comes to the ...

Only vertebrate animals have real teeth, though some invertebrates have hard tooth-like plates they use to eat. One of the earliest creatures with teeth were conodonts, an eel-like creature that first ...