We know that chimps, orang-utans and gorillas have tufts too, and these may be a common adaptation to animals with blunt, relatively flat, molars. These so-called “bunodont” teeth are also ...

It shed light on a dental mystery in particular. The giant otters possessed large bunodont, or round-cusped, teeth. Scientists have wondered whether different species of otters inherited these ...

almost twice as large as the largest living otters. It had a large and powerful jaw, with enlarged, bunodont (rounded-cusped) cheek teeth. These characteristics appear to have been adaptations for ...