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Otodus megalodon was a giant extinct lamniform shark that lived from the Miocene into the Pliocene, roughly 23 to 3.6 million years ago. It is known mainly from very large teeth and fossilized vertebral centra, so estimates of its maximum body length remain uncertain. Its robust, serrated teeth indi...
Larisa DeSantis is an American paleontologist and a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on paleoecology, specifically utilizing dental microwear texture analysis and stable isotope geochemistry to reconstruct the diets and habitats of ext...
Gigantopithecus blacki was an extinct great ape known mainly from large teeth and lower jaws found in southern China and parts of mainland Southeast Asia. It lived during the Pleistocene and was substantially larger than living apes, although estimates of its body mass remain uncertain because no co...
Homo luzonensis is an extinct hominin species described in 2019 from teeth and fragmentary hand, foot, and thigh bones found in Callao Cave on Luzon in the Philippines. Specimen CCH6 is part of this fossil assemblage, some of which is approximately 67,000 years old. The remains combine traits not se...
Smile is an autobiographical graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier, published by Scholastic's Graphix imprint. The book recounts Telgemeier's experiences from sixth grade through high school, centered on the serious dental injuries and extended orthodontic treatment she received after accidentally losin...
Serratolamna serrata is a Late Cretaceous mackerel shark species named by Agassiz in 1843 and known mainly from small teeth with cusplets.
