Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood, during which parents, grandparents and other adults contribute to their physical and cognitive development. This is a key ...

Putting together the puzzle of human evolution sometimes comes down to about 32 pieces–our teeth. Several fossil teeth dating ...

Studies show that people who can easily access dental care are more likely to go for cleanings and other procedures.

ALTHOUGH all mammals have teeth, most do not suffer from bad teeth or what is known as tooth decay. Why is this so? Well, tooth decay occurs when several factors coincide. First, there must be a tooth ...

But after two decades of research, and no small amount of controversy, we can be sure that Homo floresiensis wasn’t really anything close to a short human with big feet and a penchant for seed ...

Mars pareidolia strikes again. An image captured by the Perseverance rover in the course of its duties is one of the grisliest yet: it looks, for all the world, like a desiccated, decaying human head, ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds ... hairs collected from the lions' teeth, according to a recent paper ...