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 ...

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

For the first time ever, scientists have managed to determine the biological sex of an ancient human ancestor that lived in ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

"Unusual wear on our fossil ancestors' teeth is thought to be unique to humans ... for our understanding of cultural changes during human evolution and suggests we may need to reassess early ...

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