Browsing: Teeth

September 6, 20253 min readA Mammoth Toothache: Bacterial Community Discovered in Mouth of Ancient MammothGenetic-sequencing techniques have identified microorganisms that lived in the mouths of ancient…

September 5, 20252 min readThis Gloriously Weird Fish Has Teeth on Its Forehead for SexResearchers have finally traced the origin of the spotted ratfish’s bizarre forehead…

No one will argue against the benefits of good oral hygiene (The Guardian view on the dental divide: ministers must brush up their policy as well…

Disadvantaged primary school pupils at the government’s first wave of new breakfast clubs can expect to be trained in toothbrushing, as well as fed. Data showing…

Forget William Shakespeare. This is Christopher Marlowe’s moment. Starring Edward Bluemel (My Lady Jane, Killing Eve) as hardworking, wary Will and Ncuti Gatwa (The Importance of…

Companies are making thousands of pounds by misleading parents with claims that collecting stem cells from their children’s teeth can be a treatment for diabetes and…

Leigh Boobyer & Jeremy SternBBC News, WiltshireBBCFaye Woodley says she has “no confidence” in planned NHS dentistry reformsA woman who says her teeth were destroyed by…

August 13, 20252 min readEntirely New Species of Human Ancestor DiscoveredAncient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species in the Australopithecus genus of human…

“Small and deceptively cute, but definitely not harmless” is how scientists have described a new species of ancient whale, from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on Victoria’s…

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsLink et al/Biology LettersThe researchers say the terror bird did not survive the encounter Teeth marks made on the leg bone of…