The animal kingdom is no stranger to astonishing abilities, including the remarkable power to regenerate lost or damaged body ...

A new study published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences revealed the techniques used by prehistoric communities in north-eastern Europe to extract animal teeth for crafting ...

An artist’s view of what the area of the Zvejnieki cemetery (northern Latvia) might have looked like when animal parts were processed in the cooking pits. The research centers on the Zvejnieki ...

Utterly charming, otters are web-footed animals that inhabit rivers and seas around North America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. Otters are known to be intelligent and very social aquatic ...

You probably don’t think much about teeth until a dentist brings them up. But across the animal kingdom, tooth counts can get wild fast. Some sharks go through thousands in a lifetime. Slugs carry ...

Teeth first evolved as sensory organs, not for chewing, according to a new analysis of animal fossils. The first tooth-like structures seem to have been sensitive nodules on the skin of early fish ...