This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Placodontia were a group of marine reptiles that lived in shallow nearshore environments during the Triassic. Based on tooth morphology it has ...

Because tooth shape varies with fracture properties of the foods that primates eat, relationships between dental form and function can teach us about the diets of our distant ancestors. Aristotle ...

The cranium of Vintana sertichi preserves the first associated upper dentition of a gondwanatherian mammal. Gondwanatherians are known almost exclusively from isolated teeth, particularly molariforms.

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New research reveals how genes inherited from Neanderthals and critical developmental markers like PITX2 influence tooth size, shedding light on human evolution and genetic diversity. Study: PITX2 ...

WE BRUSH them every day, flash a smile, chomp through our meals. Yet it’s easy to forget the amazing role teeth play in the story of mammalian evolution. Apart from being covered in one of nature’s ...

A global catastrophe 66 million years ago led to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs, and large marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. But what happened to the sharks? According to a ...

A tooth of an extinct mammal, possibly dating back to around 20 million years ago, was discovered on the coast of Oregon. The tooth was spotted on March 25 by Amariah Jacobs, a preschool teacher, who ...