Llamas are cute, but what makes them even better human companions is their gentleness and empathy. People from their native ...

If you think that rodents are typically tiny in size and that beavers are gigantic when compared to other members of the ...

In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular ...

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 ...

Hermit crabs have the most chromosomes of any animal with 254 or 127 pairs, while humans have 46 or 23 pairs. Each species has a specific number of chromosomes and they vary widely.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Diastema is a gap between your teeth. This can happen between any of your teeth. Because of its position, it’s most noticeable when there’s a gap between your upper front teeth. Size, shape ...

Sharks are one of the oldest species of animals still alive today. While they may not be the massive megalodons that lived ...

The team says that humans have a third set of teeth available as buds, ready to grow as needed. A sliver of what makes sharks so intriguing comes with their ability to regrow teeth.