Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s view of what the area of the Zvejnieki cemetery (present-day northern Latvia) might have looked like when animal parts ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown. It has long ...

The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While our teeth are ...

Snakes, for some, are the stuff of nightmares. For others, they’re beloved pets or fascinating research subjects. They’re classified in the suborder Serpentes and are related to lizards and other ...

The teeth of the Komodo dragon are a sight to behold. Triangular, curved, and armed with a serrated edge similar to a steak knife, they are perfectly adapted to cut into the flesh of their prey. Now, ...

New research shows that conodonts, extinct eel-like marine animals, possessed tooth elements sharper than those of any living vertebrate. Using high-resolution microscopy, scientists measured tip ...

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