A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth. Our teeth evolved from the piercing “body armor” of extinct fish, which ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced in August in the journal Nature, began with a Valentine’s Day trek seven ...

Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted understandings of ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

For more than a century, dentistry has focused on repairing or replacing damaged teeth, not growing new ones. That assumption ...

Our modern teeth evolved from a most unexpected source. A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth. Our teeth evolved ...