While the average person has 32 teeth, some species of dolphin possess as many as 240. Why so many? Not all species are quite so lucky – Risso’s dolphins only have four to 14 in their lower jaw.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but even though dolphins are objectively cute, they really freak me out. It’s because, despite their fins and living in water, they remind me just a little ...

Worn teeth and the amount of scarring on the 9½-foot-long dolphin indicates he was likely older, and he was "very emaciated ... with no presence of food in his digestive tract," said the report ...

For example, our knowledge of Megalodon's existence comes from the fossil record, which reveals teeth designed for hunting dolphins and whales. These teeth occur in the fossil record between 15 ...

Dolphins and other small cetaceans have been traditionally hunted by some communities there, who prize the teeth as currency. (Bottlenose dolphin teeth, however, were not particularly sought by the ...

About 34 million years ago the ancestors of modern dolphins were large creatures with wolflike teeth. Around that time, it’s theorized, a period of significant oceanic cooling shifted food ...

and kill the rest for meat and trophies like dolphin teeth and skulls. Taiji is a place where dolphins and small whales are captured for sale to marine aquariums. The ones that are not sold into ...

What emerged was the head of a dolphin about 30 centimeters long, which had 4-cm-long ear bones, eye and nose sockets, teeth and other skull parts. Because dolphins use ultrasonic waves to sense ...