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

More than 2,000 animal teeth have been excavated from the graves at Zvejnieki, making it a prime location to study how ancient humans interacted with these materials.

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

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.

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

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

An artist's view of what the area of the Zvejnieki cemetery (northern Latvia) might have looked like when animal parts were processed in the cooking ...

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

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

Rabbits, aka bunnies, are instantly recognizable little creatures that many of us have welcomed into our lives as pets. However, there is a lot more to this animal than the furry little creature ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense ...