Because tooth shape varies with fracture properties of the foods that primates eat, relationships between dental form and function can teach us about the diets of our distant ancestors.

2009; Figure 2). However, these are very rare cases. Instead, primates are usually preserved as petrified teeth and bones that can be extracted from the surrounding rock. These kinds of fossils ...

A team of researchers from the University of Tübingen made the distinction after uncovering two fossilized teeth and a kneecap belonging to a previously unknown primate at a site called ...