Anglerfish have invisible fangs, narwhal tusks are extra-long canines, and more facts from the weird and wonderful study of ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

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

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Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

[Related: The ‘granddaddy’ of all early hominins walked on Earth a lot longer than we thought.] Fossil teeth can help us ...