Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives ...

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

Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence ...

Scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil from Canada's Burgess Shale, a discovery that reshapes how the evolution of ...

More than 500 million years before “The Simpsons” introduced us to Blinky, a fish with an extra eye swimming through ...

Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The ...

If you've ever gotten a toothache from eating something cold like ice cream, scientists at the University of Chicago might ...

Once they compared the possible vertebrate Anatolepis to a known arthropod fossil from the Milwaukee Public Museum, they realized that what looked like dentin-lined tubules of a vertebrate were ...

New research shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish.

Sharks, skates and catfish also have tooth-like structures called denticles that make their skin feel like sandpaper. When ...

Palaeontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what’s so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of describing it scientifically. The fossil is about 50cm long and has 46 almost ...