They're actually the longest teeth in the human mouth. 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.

AQUARTER of a century ago next April, the late Prof. E. D. Cope, struck by the remarkable fact that the molar teeth, both upper and lower, of all the mammals from the Puerco or lowest Eocene ...

The fossilized remains of a newly discovered ancient shark species found in the depths of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park reveal not the sharp, pointy gnashers you’d associate with Hollywood’s ...

While tyrannosaurid teeth are sharp and recurved ... infer diets of fossil species based on where they fall on a plot of molar-crest length against tooth length for living primates with known ...