2700-year-old teeth reveal the hidden lives of Iron Age Italians
Teeth can hold remarkable clues about how people lived thousands of years ago. A new study published in the open access journal PLOS One, led by Roberto Germano of Sapienza…
150-million-year-old teeth expose dinosaurs’ secret diets
You are what you eat, it turns out — even if your last meal was 150 million years ago. While the grub itself may be long gone, a record of…
New Child Fossil Teeth Reveal Why Humans Developed an Unusually Long Childhood
A study by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) suggests that early Homo species may have experienced extended childhoods well before significant brain enlargement, challenging longstanding evolutionary assumptions. The findings…