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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

I'm a tooth person... I like quirky teeth. My husband has little teeth with spaces in between them. He hates them and I love them. I like people with buckteeth, and I like it when they crinkle a bit. It's very charming.

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'