Findings suggest placental mammals that lived in China following the most recent mass extinction evolved large teeth before developing more specialized dental structures associated with different ...

There’s a lot to gripe about in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but what tends to get the most scorn also crystallizes everything wrong with that movie: its needle drops. It’s not just that the first ...

Beginning around the 12th century CE, the professions of barber and surgeon were combined into a single occupation throughout much of Europe. And, as this animation from TED-Ed explores, while being ...

When you’re in the dentist’s chair, being told that you need a filling, a crown, a root canal, or some other procedure, should you trust that advice? Or is there another option? Many factors—apart ...

I sat at an oral surgeon’s office waiting for my daughter. The scene called to mind an assembly line. Patients went in, one after another, resigned to having their third molars, commonly known as ...

The teeth of gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates) show rigidly patterned, unidirectional replacement that may or may not be associated with a shedding mechanism. These mechanisms, which are critical for ...