What's behind the saying, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." Well, that free horse might be older than it looks and not much of a gift after all. The teeth can reveal a horse's old age. Wisconsin ...

If you’re ready for an odd story about ingenuity and dentures, let me introduce you to the tale of Francis Wharton, a Canadian who is immortalized through one of the strangest dental-related stories ...

Vermont officials are asking hunters to submit incisor teeth from deer killed during rifle season. Biologists analyze the teeth to determine a deer's age, health and other population data. This data ...

Buck teeth, or protruding front teeth, describe a type of bite issue where the top row of teeth overlaps with the bottom row. In severe cases, it may result in health problems and require treatments ...

As a young wildlife biologist, one of the most “sciencey” feeling things I did was age jawbones from harvested white-tailed deer. To this day, I still enjoy it as both a hunter and a biologist, and ...