"We performed experiments on modern fish that confirmed the presence of nerves in the outside teeth of catfish, sharks and skates," Haridy told AFP. This shows that "tooth tissues of odontodes ...

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

So Haridy turned to ancient vertebrate fish whose bumpy exoskeletons scientists believe evolved into our teeth. “As fish evolved a jaw and started to feed more like predators,” she says ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of ancient fish with hooked front fangs that made them a fearsome and effective ...

Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are small, globular fish with extra-small fins which they flap wildly ... is made from enamel — the same substance as the hard outer layer of human teeth. | Credit: Jordann ...

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Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are small, globular fish with extra-small fins which ... the same substance as the hard outer layer of human teeth. | Credit: Jordann Tomasek, Birch Aquarium at Scripps ...

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the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armoured exoskeletons of ancient fish. Paleontologists have long ...

According to the authors of a recent Nature paper, if you have sensitive teeth you might be able to blame an ancient armored fish—which you were probably already doing, right? The research ...