The surveys paid off - identifying two species new to science. Two species of suckermouth catfish were collected in the ...

What is known about megalodons comes from their teeth, with more information consistently being discovered about the massive ancient sharks.

The discovery of a prehistoric tail-shedding reptile reveals more about large lizard life and lineage during the Late ...

Xenacanthus was a 3-to-5-foot freshwater shark which fed on crustaceans and small fish. It lived from the end of the Devonian ...

Ten thousand years after mastodons disappeared, scientists have unearthed powerful fossil evidence proving these elephant ...

Researchers have successfully implanted  a "smart" tooth implant using a gentler form of surgery inside the mouths of rats.

Giraffes have the same number of teeth as humans do, but they are designed in a very different way to serve a unique purpose.

This dinosaur’s skull was light as air but its mouth was packed with power—and a unique ability to quickly grow teeth. Here’s ...

Whenever Yara Haridy, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, shows off the fossils she works with, people are often ...

Wolves are known the world over as the bad guys in children’s stories, hunters of deer and elk, and relatives of our beloved ...

Incisors are the sharp teeth at the front of the mouth that bite into food and cut it into smaller pieces. They are flat with a thin edge. They are also called anterior teeth. Children and adults ...

The anatomy of these flakes of invertebrate armor resembled the teeth of vertebrates. Why was that? In other words, says Haridy, "What problem are these two animals solving that gave them such ...