In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular cultural practice. These decorative ornaments that have been dug up in ...

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

They use these small front teeth to chew bugs and debris from their fur, and to scratch itches. The incisors are essential for grabbing bites of food, both from living animals and carrion.

So spare a thought for the people who, for millennia, voluntarily had good, healthy front teeth hammered or pulled out – a practice that continued from 4800 BP to the early 1900s.

Animals also reinforce their teeth by evolving new structures of enamel—one of the two tissues, along with dentin, that are present in all animal teeth.

Human and animal teeth are coated in a complex crystalline substance called enamel. And while enamel is the hardest tissue in our bodies, it's even harder in rodents. Their ever-growing incisors ...

Stone Age Europeans sported animal teeth as accessories, but how did they extract the materials to make them?

A cat who lost her front teeth has been left with a permanent facial expression that is delighting the internet.

Teeth also evolved into tusks and fangs that expanded the animal behavioral repertoire to include digging, scraping, fighting, building dams and more.

The research centers on the Zvejnieki cemetery site in Latvia (7500–2500 cal. BC), where more than 2,000 animal teeth have been excavated from graves. While previous studies focused on the symbolic ...

Chattering squirrels, charming coypus, and tail-slapping beavers — along with some other rodents — have orange-brown front teeth. Microscopic studies of these incisors revealed nano-sized pockets of ...