Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

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

Teeth are sensitive because they evolved from sensory tissue in both ancient vertebrates and ancient arthropods.

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ...

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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 ...

With more than 35,000 species of fish in the world today, it’s not surprising that there are some deadly ones among them. However, not all deadly fish are large and aggressive. Ironically, some of the ...

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