They're actually the longest teeth in the human mouth. So what are these long, sharp teeth doing among our short, stubby ones? Well, contrary to popular belief, it's not for tearing and ripping meat.

ATEN-POUND bite requires a forty-pound contraction of the human jaw muscles. That is because the jaws are built on the principle of a pair of tongs, The power is applied near the joint, while the work ...

It is the first anthropoid to show the same arrangement of teeth humans have—two incisors, one canine, two premolars, and three molars—leading Simons to argue, "This is the first chapter of ...

Rather than regenerating our teeth, humans have become more focused on ... developed to be more blade-like to shear through meat. Premolars: Our premolars are wider teeth used for crushing and ...

Missing teeth at birth, known as tooth agenesis, can impact both primary and permanent teeth due to genetic and environmental ...

Archaeologists were finally able to discern the baby’s eye color, hair type, sex, and even how he died more than 25 years ...

The "Well-man" likely had blue eyes, blond or light-brown hair, and hailed from southern Norway.

On November 24, 1974, Johanson was out prospecting for fossils of human ancestors with his graduate ... skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis ...

But as human diets and lifestyles evolved ... Our different types of teeth-incisors, canines, premolars, and molars-have specific timelines and triggers for growth. If your parents had wisdom ...

Premolars have a flatter surface for crushing ... and how the variety in human teeth allows us omnivores to chew up the wide variety of food we eat. An experiment with an egg left in vinegar ...

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 ...

Scientists analyzed hairs extracted from the broken teeth of two 19th century 'man-eater' lions. Their analysis revealed DNA from giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest and zebra as prey, along ...