A new study has revealed that teeth, as we know them today, didn’t evolve for chewing or biting, but for sensing the ...

Ancient fish fossils highlight the strangeness of our vertebrate ancestors. Nearly 440-million-year-old finds from China are of some of the first vertebrates with jaws ...

While it's very true that, as the great Ian Malcolm once said, "life finds a way," that way can sometimes veer quite far off ...

However, new research into an ancient fish called Eriptychius might finally bridge this gap. A study led by Dr Ivan Sansom at the University of Birmingham uses fossils of the species to provide the ...

Fish: Vertebrates that live in water and breathe using gills; Fish are defined as vertebrates (meaning they have a backbone) that live in water and use gills to breathe.

A fossil analysis suggests that the yunnanozoan, a wormlike fish that flourished around 520 million years ago, sported structures that were the precursors of the head and jaws of modern vertebrates.

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

HARIDY: These early vertebrates - they lived in mucky seas. They probably needed every inch of sensation they could get. What we couldn't ask from the fossils is, hey, ancient fish, were those ...

Nervy human teeth arose from ancient armored fish scales The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an ... That skeleton is what makes us vertebrates. And Haridy ...

Some fish have a hidden superpower—they can glow in vibrant colors under certain kinds of light. This natural glow, called ...

Researchers have long been skeptical that the brain could have a microbiome because all vertebrates, including fish, have a blood-brain barrier. These blood vessels and surrounding brain cells are ...