Tooth decay, or dental caries as the pros call it, is still a big problem today despite all our fancy toothbrushes and floss. Oddly enough, our ancient ancestors didn’t have as many issues with ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Ancient Romans had pretty great teeth. Scientists are scanning the body casts of victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which is leading them to new revelations.

The fossilized remains of a newly discovered ancient shark species found in the ... but chisel and “molar-like” teeth. That’s according to a description from Rickard Toomey, a cave ...