With age, teeth get increasingly brittle and susceptible to damage from tooth decay, which can eventually lead to tooth loss.

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The tooth of an extinct baby mammoth is considered a rare find in Mississippi and it will be at a museum in June.

Baby dinosaurs were likely fed more nutritious food than their adult counterparts, a finding that could offer insights into ...

Baby teeth have a value that goes beyond money from the tooth fairy. Scientists say they also hold the key to figuring out what metals in the environment infants were exposed to — and how they affect ...

Researchers have discovered 25-million-year-old platypus fossils in outback South Australia, where they are believed to have lived with ancient lungfish, flamingos and freshwater dolphins. The animals ...

A new study examined baby teeth and found there are critical windows early in a child's life when their developing brains are particularly vulnerable to exposures to metals in the environment.

A new study examined baby teeth and found there are critical windows early in a child's life when their developing brains are particularly vulnerable to exposures to metals in the environment. KUOW is ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report that early-life exposure to common environmental metals may influence brain development and behavioral health more than a decade later ...

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Prenatal and early postnatal lead exposure was associated with poorer cognitive function more than 60 years later, with the strongest effects observed among women who were exposed in utero during the ...

Teeth help animals bite and chew food. Meat-eating carnivores tend to have sharp teeth to sink into their prey, while herbivores tend to have flatter teeth to grind down their plant-based meals. Some ...