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 ...

The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While our teeth are ...

Our modern teeth evolved from a most unexpected source. A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth. Our teeth evolved ...

For more than a century, dentistry has focused on repairing or replacing damaged teeth, not growing new ones. That assumption ...

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 ...

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the ...

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.

What has needle-like teeth so large they don’t fit inside its mouth, a huge gaping jaw that completely engulfs its prey, and lives in the depths of the ocean where sunlight can’t reach? That would be ...

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