A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth. Our teeth evolved from the piercing “body armor” of extinct fish, which ...

Our sensitive teeth originally evolved from the "body armor" of extinct fish that lived 465 million years ago, scientists say. In a new study, the researchers showed how sensory tissue discovered on ...

This video exposes the unsettling reality of a fish whose human-like teeth have left scientists and viewers equally disturbed ...

Yara Haridy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, likes to stun people by telling them that our skeletons evolved from a jawless fish. “Much of what we have today has been around ...

Teeth first evolved as sensory organs, not for chewing, according to a new analysis of animal fossils. The first tooth-like structures seem to have been sensitive nodules on the skin of early fish ...

A new study reveals your molars may have more in common with prehistoric body armor than you’d expect. The next time you wince from an ice-cold drink or a too-hot slice of pizza, blame your ancestors.

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