The animal kingdom is no stranger to astonishing abilities, including the remarkable power to regenerate lost or damaged body ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A CT scan of the tooth-like odontode structure from Astrapsis, an ancient jawless vertebrate fish shows that its tubules (shown in ...

A new form of imaging has unseated an octopus from its oldest fossil title, but resulted in a new discovery in the process.

In archaeological sites across southern France and Spain, researchers have analyzed thousands of animal teeth dating back 8,000 years. These remains, especially molars from sheep and goats, show the ...

Teeth first evolved as sensory organs, not for chewing, according to a new analysis of animal fossils. The first tooth-like structures seem to have been sensitive nodules on the skin of early fish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s view of what the area of the Zvejnieki cemetery (present-day northern Latvia) might have looked like when animal parts ...

The animal kingdom stretches anatomy far beyond human expectations. Some creatures carry organs that rival furniture in size, while others rely on structures so tiny they can only be seen through a ...

When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such as tools, bones, and pottery. Experimental archaeologists, however, go a ...

Ancient Iranians hosted epic feasts with wild boars that had been hunted and transported from distant regions. These animals weren’t just dinner—they were symbolic gifts. Tooth enamel analysis ...

(CNN) — The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While our teeth ...