A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

Researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old protein remains from ancient pre-human teeth to reveal biological sex and ...

Scientists have successfully extracted ancient proteins from two-million-year-old teeth, a breakthrough providing previously unobtainable details on ...

Teeth are sensitive because they evolved from sensory tissue in both ancient vertebrates and ancient arthropods.

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth.

Your teeth play important roles in your daily life, but have you ever wondered how humans evolved to have them? Skin scales ...

Learn why both human teeth and an ancient fish contain a key sensory substance — but in different locations.

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to ...