In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular cultural practice. These decorative ornaments that have been dug up in ...

These finds, reported in the journal Antiquity, are some of the earliest archaeological evidence globally for the use of shark teeth in composite weapons — weapons made with multiple parts.Until ...

Stingray teeth are flattened and made of modified placoid scales (also called dermal denticles). These are the same type of scales found on a shark’s body.  Do Stingrays Replace Teeth? Like ...

This summer we’re celebrating some of the most successful animals our planet has ever seen with ... Fossils are mostly limited to isolated curved blades known as whorls, lined with teeth. While alive, ...

A sea monster with teeth so sharp they formed a "saw-like blade," swam in the waters of what is now Morocco about 66 million years ago, a new study finds. Miners discovered the remains of this ...

Animal Teeth, Wood, and Porcelain: ... China and Japan produced self-attaching dentures made primarily from wood, while European examples only sprang up in the 15th century, ...

In the history of teeth, perhaps no tooth is as famous as the saber tooth. These long, blade-like canines seem almost perfectly optimized to kill prey. They've evolved at least five times in ...

Komodo dragon teeth show orange pigment along the serrated edges. LeBlanc et al., Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2024 X-ray imaging revealed the orange pigmentation was iron, coating the teeth in a ...

For Weird Animal Question of the Week, we’re sinking our teeth into two reader queries about animal choppers. First we have six-year-old Henry from Denver, Colorado, who asked: “Since gorillas ...