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 ...

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 ...

Some fish species have not one, not two, but three varieties of teeth. Most fish have two sets of teeth—the oral teeth located near the front of their mouth for grabbing and chomping and the ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons. They may look like oversized water cows, but don't get fooled–hippos have one of the strongest bites. Their tusk-like teeth can grow up to 20 inches, and they use them ...

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.

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.

Teeth also evolved into tusks and fangs that expanded the animal behavioral repertoire to include digging, scraping, fighting, building dams and more. Narwhal teeth-tusks double as sensory organs ...

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 ...