A pediatric dentist and an anthropologist explain how baby teeth and adult teeth help humans chomp their food over a long ...

Like most mammals, humans are diphyodont: We have two sets of teeth – baby teeth and adult teeth. The technical term for our ...

Like all living things, bacteria adapt to survive. Over time, bacteria have been developing resistance to common antibiotics ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

Saliva genes evolved faster than most body systems, revealing how food, pathogens, and environment shaped the modern human ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable ...

Tooth infections in horses can be tricky to identify but there are a range of equine endodontic treatments now available from ...

The Pasco City Council is scheduled to vote Monday on whether to eliminate or keep fluoride in the city’s water. But now the ...

A human skull was discovered in a wooded area outside Detroit this week, and police believe the remains could be linked to a ...

While some countries have already phased out the use mercury use in dental amalgam, the remaining countries agreed to the timeline put in place by The Minamata Convention on Mercury, an international ...