The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ...

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

New research from the University of Chicago reveals that teeth may have evolved from sensory armor in ancient fish.

A new study reveals that the sensitivity of teeth, which makes them zing in a dentist's chair or ache after biting into ...

This armor wasn't just for show. It could have seen deadly combat during the epic Trojan War.

but that is found in external bumps in ancient fish armor. But as they looked more closely, they realized that the supposed dentine-lined pores were actually more like the sensory organs on the ...

“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 ...

HARIDY: Thought to be the scales of this ancient fish-like thing. DANIEL: Forming a kind of armor - the Anatolepis fragments hadn't been imaged in detail before, so Haridy and her team booked time ...

first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish. Paleontologists have long believed that teeth evolved from the bumpy structures on this armor, but their purpose wasn’t ...