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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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.

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 ...