Size isn't everything -- it's how sharp you are

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 12:30 in Biology & Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- The tiny teeth of a long-extinct vertebrate – with tips only two micrometres across: one twentieth the width of a human hair – are the sharpest dental structures ever measured, new research from the University of Bristol and Monash University, Australia has found.

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