Mastering preventive pediatric dentistry can transform your child’s oral health for life—discover how to foster these ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long period of childhood.

An extended childhood, a hallmark of human development, may have gotten off to an ancient and unusual start. One of the earliest known members of the Homo genus experienced delayed, humanlike tooth ...

A fossil found in Georgia is helping scientists answer a big question: why do humans have such a long childhood? Compared to ...

Simple shifts in tooth growth turned vole molars into complex, grass-cutting tools, revealing how small developmental tweaks drive evolution.

Several genes affect tooth development in the first year of life, according to the findings of a study conducted at Imperial College London, the University of Bristol in the U.K., and the University ...

Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, called a tenaculum, helps males hold onto females during mating. Genetic ...

Researchers uncover how cells develop and specialize, advancing prospects for regenerative dental treatments. Researchers at Science Tokyo have identified two separate stem cell lineages responsible ...

It’s a frustrating fact that our bodies can’t regenerate damaged tooth enamel, but scientists at the University of Washington (UW) have now grown mini teeth in the lab that secrete enamel-producing ...

Kilat, the largest living lizard at the Toronto Metro Zoo, like other members of his species (Varanus komodoensis), truly deserves to be called the Komodo Dragon! Its impressive size and the way it ...

At a time when biodiversity is under severe pressure from human activities, understanding how evolution works is more ...