Narrator: Lions have them, hippos have them, and even you and I have them: canines, those long, pointy front teeth. They're actually the longest teeth in the human mouth. So what are these long, sharp ...

Teeth help animals bite and chew food. Meat-eating carnivores tend to have sharp teeth to sink into their prey, while herbivores tend to have flatter teeth to grind down their plant-based meals. Some ...

When most people think of ferocious, blade-like teeth on prehistoric creatures they picture Smilodon, better known as the saber-toothed tiger. But in the world of dinosaurs, theropods are well known ...

Two warm-blooded mammal species have triumphed in the fast-paced environment of New York City: human beings and rats. Robert Sullivan was fascinated with how eager many people are to save whales or ...

Piranhas belong to a family of bony fish characterized by highly developed dentition. They’re cousins to the pacu fish, which has dentition eerily similar to human teeth. Unlike pacu teeth, which are ...

The fossil skeleton of a bird with strange teeth that lived 125 million years ago has been discovered in China. The bird had bizarre ridges on its teeth that may have enabled it to crack open ...

Why do ants and other small creatures have such sharp bites? According to scientists from the University of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the answer lies in their ...

Tahlia Pollock receives funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (RTP stipend), the Monash Graduate Excellence Scholarship (MGE). The research was also funded by ...