Your teeth play important roles in your daily life, but have you ever wondered how humans evolved to have them? Skin scales of fossil fish may have the answer.

So what changed? Experts say the answer isn’t simple but point to one possible culprit: our diets. As we traded raw, tough ...

In conclusion, human teeth are unique in that they are the only part of the body that cannot heal themselves. This is primarily due to their non-living enamel structure, which lacks the ...

A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth.. Our teeth evolved from the piercing “body armor” of extinct fish ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

A new analysis of teeth and a bone found on an Indonesian island reveal that "hobbits" were more than 2 inches shorter than we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Bone smashing will not permanently change your facial structure – but it may lead to other permanent harms, including tooth loss and blindness. The ‘science’ behind the trend ...

Scientists have grown a tooth in a lab, marking a significant step toward regenerative dental treatments. The study, carried out in London by King's College and Imperial College, used a specially ...

While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness. Now ...