We wondered whether the same technique could work for ancient teeth and finally provide a date marker for early hominins' ...

Commander Donald B. MacMillan, the noted Arctic explorer, obtained about 90 impressions of the teeth of the Eskimos of Smith Sound, "the meat eaters," who live the farthest north of any human beings.

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. The real reason is actually much more romantic than ...

Dire wolves, brought back into the spotlight through recent cloning efforts, are often portrayed as the greatest of prehistoric canines. Yet, even the largest dire wolf would pale in comparison to ...

He's got the wrong sort of teeth! Animals which eat plants have teeth like this. They're shaped to squash and grind. Meat eating animals have teeth like this, for slicing and ripping. You should ...

Because tooth shape varies with fracture properties of the foods that primates eat ... specialized cheek teeth called carnassials, with sharp, v-shaped blades for slicing meat and sinew, and ...

But that doesn't explain when and where regular meat eating started and which species ... we measured nitrogen isotopes in the enamel from fossilised teeth belonging to the hominin genus ...

He's got the wrong sort of teeth! Animals which eat plants have teeth like this. They're shaped to squash and grind. Meat eating animals have teeth like this, for slicing and ripping. You should ...