Caleb Landry Jones is an effectively sympathetic Dracula in Luc Besson's uneven but fun take on classic vampire.

King’s lomatia is a single clonal plant that has survived for over 43,000 years. Here’s how it’s outlasted ice ages, climate ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

Learn the biological triggers of grinding and find medical treatments to protect your jaw and sleep better tonight.

Flying is really hard work. Compared to walking, swimming, or running, flying is the form of movement that takes the most ...

They were said to emerge whenever a tooth went bad, perishing as soon as a crack or cavity exposed them to air. It’s a genius plot twist for a worm that doesn’t exist, as if you crack open an infected ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

No matter how much they brush their teeth, some people still get more cavities than others, in part because of differences in ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

Impacted teeth pose significant risks to oral health, ranging from cyst formation to arch crowding. Early detection remains ...

Oral frailty can shorten your life expectancy, so those dreaded visits, drills and all, really are for your own good.