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Sharpening our understanding of saber‐tooth biomechanics

The Anatomical Record, Volume 308, Issue 11, Page 3022-3040, November 2025.
Abstract Saber‐teeth are a striking example of convergent evolution in vertebrate predators, having evolved multiple times in mammals and their early ancestors. While there is broad consensus that saber‐toothed taxa employed a distinct biting strategy compared to conical‐toothed carnivores, like the lion, the precise mechanics and variability of this ...
Tahlia Pollock, Philip S. L. Anderson
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Using springbok (Antidorcas) dietary proxies to reconstruct inferred palaeovegetational changes over 2 million years in Southern Africa [PDF]

, 2018
The reconstruction of past vegetation and climatic conditions of the Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng Province, South Africa, has been approached using various proxies (such as micromammals, speleothems, faunal and floral presence and stable carbon isotopes).
Hopley, Philip, Merceron, G., Reynolds, S., Sewell, L., Zipfel, B.   +4 more
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Commentary: What's so interesting about sabertooths?

The Anatomical Record, Volume 308, Issue 11, Page 2825-2830, November 2025.
Abstract Sabertooth creatures are fascinating to the public and to scientists. This Special Issue on The Anatomy of Sabertooths starts with a discussion of what exactly a sabertooth is, continues with a couple of papers about other animals with extraordinarily long teeth, and then delves into analyses of fossil sabertoothed taxa—some of which are not ...
Adam Hartstone‐Rose, Tahlia I. Pollock, Lars Werdelin   +2 more
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On the Cusp: A Study of Macro- & Microwear in Middle Woodland & Mississippian Skeletal Samples from the Lower Midwest [PDF]

, 2013
poster abstractStudies of dental macro- and microwear are emerging as complimentary lines of evidence to archaeological research, enabling scholars to track changes in the mode of subsistence over long and short periods.
Query, Jamie R., Wilson, Jeremy J.
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Tooth wear prevention: A quantitative and qualitative in vitro study [PDF]

, 2003
The document attached has been archived with permission from the Australian Dental Association. An external link to the publisher’s copy is included.Background: Management of tooth wear from grinding presents a significant clinical challenge.
Arnell RD, Dao TTT, Kaidonis JA, Kaidonis JA, Khan F., Rugh JD, Teo C.   +6 more
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Proteomic analysis resulting in species‐level identification of recently diverged North American arvicoline rodents

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1240-1251, October 2025.
ABSTRACT North American arvicoline rodents have long been considered to have high biogeographic, biochronologic, and paleoecological value. They provide relative dating of faunal assemblages when absolute dating is not possible and contribute to paleobiome characterization.
Erin M. Keenan Early, Christopher J. Bell, Matthew J. Collins, Timothy M. Shanahan   +3 more
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Stress, Life History, and Linear Enamel Hypoplasia: Insights From the Indigenous Populations of the Canary Islands

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 188, Issue 1, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study evaluated the influence of genetic diversity, subsistence strategies, age at death, and their interplay on the prevalence of linear enamel hypoplasias (LEHs) in the indigenous populations of the Canary Islands. Additionally, we test the predictive adaptive hypothesis and the plasticity/constraint hypothesis within this ...
Aarón Morquecho Izquier, Rebeca García‐González, Jonathan Santana   +2 more
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A methodological approach to infer the diet: the case of the children from Cova de la Guineu (Font-Rubí, Barcelona, Spain)

UISPP Journal, 2019
Dental microwear is a widely used technique to infer the diet of ancient populations. This method allows to determine not only the physical properties of the food, such as abrasiveness or hardness, but also informs about how food was processed before ...
Raquel Hernando, Juan Ignacio Morales, Francesc Xavier Oms, Artur Cebrià, Marina Lozano   +4 more
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Regional Differences of Dental Microwear on the Occlusal Surface of an M2 from Neolithic Japan: A Case Study

Dental Anthropology, 2005
Regional differences of dental microwear among four small areas on the heavily worn occlusal surface of a mandibular M2 of an adult male from Neolithic Japan were investigated using a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Teruyuki Hojo
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Enamel thickness trends in Plio-Pleistocene hominin mandibular molars [PDF]

, 2015
Enamel thickness continues to be an important morphological character in hominin systematics and is frequently invoked in dietary reconstructions of Plio-Pleistocene hominin taxa.
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