Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we ...

Traditionally, it is the role of the old to worry that the young are having sex too much. In the nineteen-twenties, society’s elders panicked about flappers fornicating in speakeasies; the sixties ...

Dr. JP Pillai a forensic odontologist explained how he and his team was trying to extract DNA samples from the teeth of the victims to identify them. "In dental field, we know that the teeth are ...

Humans have long accepted that we get one replacement set of teeth after our baby ones. The idea of sprouting another tooth by simply taking a pill has sounded like pure science fiction in everyday ...

[ Related: ] In the meantime, Nares spoke of the adult teeth we do have with reverence. “The natural dentition that we were born with is one-of-a-kind,” he explained.

For cats their teeth – alongside their claws – are essential tools for catching and killing prey, as well as for eating, but on the whole we don't really see a lot of them. Cats tend to keep their ...

This article was originally published with the title “Extracting Teeth by Electricity” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 14 No. 15 (December 1858), p. 118 doi:10.1038 ...

It is possible to have fewer than 32 teeth, depending on whether they all came in or you had teeth removed or lost. Babies and children have fewer teeth than adults. It is also possible to have more ...

But once teeth start to come in, a teething puppy can quickly become an enthusiastic chewer. During the teething phase, a puppy's little gums may feel sore and tender, leading them to seek relief ...

But teeth continue to shift as we age, so there's never a time when braces won’t work. Braces adjust teeth by putting pressure on them, and this pressure works even after bones have stopped growing.

"Having this many teeth within the jaw at a given time is a unique feature among predatory reptiles, and only seen In the Komodo," noted Dr. Robert Reisz, co-author of the research paper. Most ...

Most other known reptiles have one or at most two replacement teeth in the jaw, and this includes most theropod dinosaurs. Perhaps the most surprising discovery was that the Komodo started to make ...