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 ...

A study titled "Functional optimality underpins the repeated evolution of the extreme 'saber-tooth' morphology" published in Current Biology reveals why: these teeth were 'functionally optimal ...

“I think that’s part of the reason why this sabre-tooth morphology hasn’t evolved again in the present – we don’t have the megafauna,” says Julie Meachen at Des Moines University in Iowa.

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 ...

Unlike previous Carinodens fossils, which were often incomplete, this find includes both upper and lower jaws, allowing researchers to examine the animal’s unique tooth morphology in detail.

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 ...