Teeth are sensitive because they evolved from sensory tissue in both ancient vertebrates and ancient arthropods.

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to ...

Specifically, the armor-plated fish that swam Earth’s oceans over 460 million years ago. A new study published in Nature ...

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives ...

New research shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish.

Tooth Pain is older than tooth itself, study revealed, could be traced back to 465 million years in fish’s armored skin ...

A recent study reveals that human teeth evolved from the sensory armor of ancient fish that lived 465 million years ago.

The main difference is, in human teeth, it acts as an internal detector, while in ancient fish armor, it serves as an external sensation antenna. Paleontologists have long suspected that teeth evolved ...

“So, there’s sensitive armor in these fish ... Armored jawless fish like Astraspis and Eriptychius and ancient arthropods like Anatolepis coexisted in the muddy shallow seas of the Ordovician ...