A new study has revealed that teeth, as we know them today, didn’t evolve for chewing or biting, but for sensing the environment around ancient fish. This discovery pushes the timeline of vertebrate ...

Bull sharks (Carcharhinus Leucas) are one of the ocean’s most fearsome creatures. Although some animals may prey on bull sharks, such as crocodiles, killer whales, and the occasional great white shark ...

As the oceans become more acidic, shark teeth are likely to become weaker and more brittle, according to the findings of a new study. The idea of some of the world’s most formidable predators becoming ...

It's rare, but a trip to the beach in Florida can end up with a shark bite − or a bite from a toothy sea creature. When this happens, people are likely to ask, "what bit you?" Specifically, they're ...

Our evolutionary history bears the bite marks of our teeth. And not just on our outcrop of the mammalian divergence, but across a vast range of animals, extinct and extant, backboned and not, ...