A surprisingly large lineage, African cichlids are adaptable, some studded with cones and some studded with cusps that allow them to pierce and tear through algae, plants, and prey, and it is these ...

or "complex" teeth with multiple cusps that can adapt to feed on different prey. Peoples spent two years examining the teeth of over 30,000 species of fish, including 1,000 species of African ...

Skin attachment - Teeth are anchored to the skin by collagen fibers that run into the dentine from the dermis (in sharks). Each tooth touches the bone with the outer surface of the root, may be joined ...

Folivorous langurs have cheek teeth with taller cusps and longer shearing blades than do hard-object-feeding mangabeys. Frugivores, and those with broad diets, are intermediate in occlusal relief ...

Peoples and colleagues compiled a comprehensive data set of whether teeth were simple (Fig. 1) with one ridge (cusp), which is the case for a human front tooth, or complex (Fig. 2) with more than ...