Teeth help animals bite and chew food. Meat-eating carnivores tend to have sharp teeth to sink into their prey, while herbivores tend to have flatter teeth to grind down their plant-based meals. Some ...

You only get 52 teeth in your lifetime: 20 baby teeth, followed by 32 adult teeth. It's not like that for all animals. Some, like rodents, never replace their teeth. Others, like sharks, keep ...

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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do people have two sets of teeth? – Ivy D., ...