This is true even when all you find is one of me. Our shape also gives clues to what our animals ate. Some animals, like zebras, have tall molars covered with thick enamel because they chew grass all day. Meat-eater's teeth look completely different. They have really sharp, pointy molars that act like scissors.
Humans have a mix of teeth because they chew lots of different types of foods.
You can usually find out the age of our animal when it died by looking at how worn we are. We have more enamel and sharper chewing surfaces when our animal is young because they haven t crunched a lot of food yet. If we are found in the same place as human fossils, anthropologists can find out what animals lived at the same time as our early ancestors. Depending on where we were found, scientists may even learn about whether our animals were part of the diet of early humans. Leo School, Fairview, St.