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Researchers Chart 100,000-Year-Old History of Oral Bacteria

By comparing the fossilized dental plaque of human beings and Neanderthals spanning the past...

Ancient Teeth Reveal a New Evolutionary Cousin

An international team of researchers used uranium series analysis to date teeth and bone...

Ancient Plaque Reveals Clues About Early Diets and Dental Hygiene

Bits of wood recovered from a 1.2-million-year-old tooth found at an excavation site in...

Even Ancient Men Seemed to Like Their Man Caves

The concept of the “man cave” has been entrenched in the human lineage for...