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 ...

Drum fish are given their unique name not because they have drums in their bodies but because they let out croaker sounds produced by their swim bladders. There are around 275 species of drum fish, ...

View post: Winter Storm Warning Map Shows Every State’s Valentine’s Day Weather A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human ...

A new study has revealed that teeth, as we know them today, didn’t evolve for chewing or biting, but for sensing the environment around ancient fish. This discovery pushes the timeline of vertebrate ...

It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation itself, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A CT scan of the tooth-like odontode structure from Astrapsis, an ancient jawless vertebrate fish shows that its tubules (shown in ...

The next time you wince from an ice-cold drink or a too-hot slice of pizza, blame your ancestors. Specifically, the armor-plated fish that swam Earth’s oceans over 460 million years ago. A new study ...

The sound of a dentist's drill - did it make your teeth quiver? Well, it turns out the sensitivity of our teeth which causes them to ache can be traced back to the exoskeletons of ancient armored fish ...