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 ...

In a study, published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, researchers quantified tooth morphology, including jaggedness, using skeletal specimens of 13 species of seals from the collection of the ...

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 ...