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Researchers Chart 100,000-Year-Old History of Oral Bacteria

By comparing the fossilized dental plaque of human beings and Neanderthals spanning the past...

Researchers Find Tooth from One of Northern Italy’s Last Neanderthals

A milk tooth found in the vicinity of Riparo del Broion on the Berici...

Primary Teeth Reveal New Human Ancestor

Two primary teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in northeastern Siberia have...

Microfossils in Ancient Plaque Reveal Mesolithic Diet

Analysis of the skeletal remains of a Mesolithic man found in a cave on...

Fossilized Cavities Reveal Ancient Bear’s Sweet Tooth

Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature and the Natural History Museum of Los...

Neanderthal Fossils Reveal Prehistoric Dentistry

Dentistry is not a modern invention. A team of researchers has discovered multiple toothpick...

Tooth and Jaw Fossils Point to Man’s Earliest Ancestor

The lineages of chimpanzees and human beings may have split several hundred thousand years...

Ancient Plaque Reveals Clues About Early Diets and Dental Hygiene

Bits of wood recovered from a 1.2-million-year-old tooth found at an excavation site in...

Enamel Reveals “Killer Walrus” Had a Simple Diet

Biologists have thought that an ancient walrus known as Pelagiarctos thomasi roamed the waters...

Ancient Skull Reveals a Softer Prehistoric Diet

In 2008, scientists recovered the skull of an Australopithecus sediba. This diminutive pre-human species...