Some insights from dental morphology," published in Antiquity by Cambridge University Press, researchers Joel D. Irish and Jacek Kabaciński analyzed dental morphology data from five Neolithic ...

Because tooth shape varies with fracture properties of the foods that primates eat, relationships between dental form and function can teach us about the diets of our distant ancestors. Aristotle ...

The girl’s tooth so closely matched the morphology of a tooth from a Denisovan mandible found in China’s Gansu Province that the researchers concluded she was likely also Denisovan. Shara Bailey, a ...

A new study, published today in Current Biology reveals why: these teeth were ‘functionally optimal’ and highly effective at puncturing prey. The study, led by scientists at the University of ...