By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived ...

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

Authorities said that tourists visiting a South Carolina island came across centuries-old human skeletal remains.

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

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

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

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

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

A new study from the University of Chicago suggests our sensitive teeth may be an evolutionary leftover that once helped our ...

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

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

Vertebrate fossils can typically be identified because they contain internal tubules which store dentine, the calcified tissue which is found under the enamel of human teeth. Dentine is also found ...