For nearly a hundred years, historians and archaeologists have argued over one basic question about ancient Greece: how did ...

Learn more about what fossilized teeth can tell us about the rise of mammals after the extinction of dinosaurs.

An analysis of fossil teeth from mammals that lived in China following the most recent major mass extinction suggests size came before both shape and function as diets diversified.

A wooden statue standing over 17 feet tall was carved by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers using beaver jaw chisels 11,500 years ...

New biomechanical research shows Smilodon's legendary saber teeth came with a surprisingly weak bite — and reveals the real ...

An analysis of fossil teeth from mammals that lived in China following the most recent major mass extinction suggests size came before both shape and ...

Eutherian mammals living in China after the end-Cretaceous extinctions evolved larger tooth sizes first before becoming more specialized in their biting performance, mirroring a similar pattern in ...

The agricultural economy was the backbone of wealth in ancient Greece. Food brought people together, whether in smaller groups at a wine-drinking symposium or the entire community in a sacrificial ...

A fossil skull of Edmontosaurus, unearthed in Montana, has given scientists direct evidence of a prehistoric attack: a tyrannosaur (Tyrannosaurus) tooth firmly lodged in the bone. This exceptional ...

No one likes having their teeth drilled at the dentist. But hey, it could be worse. You could be a Neanderthal performing surgery on your own rotting molar with nothing but a shard of rock. That’s the ...

A hypothetical model illustrating how reduced Hedgehog signaling alters interactions between the rudimentary tooth bud (R2) and the first molar (M1), leading to supernumerary (SN) tooth or molar ...

Healthy aging induces parallel changes in brain functional activity and structural morphology, yet the interplay between these changes remains unclear. Prof. Yuhui Du's team at the College of Computer ...