The research also showed that structures considered to be teeth in fossils from the Cambrian ... "We think that the earliest vertebrates, these big, armored fish, had very similar structures ...

New fossil research shows that teeth originally evolved as sensory tissue embedded in the armored exoskeletons of ancient ...

St. George leaders and residents gathered to celebrate saving world-renowned dinosaur fossil quarry and the exciting ...

The research also showed that structures considered to be teeth in fossils from the Cambrian period ... “We think that the earliest vertebrates, these big, armored fish, had very similar structures, ...

“We think that the earliest vertebrates, these big, armored fish, had very similar ... between odontodes and teeth is continuously being clarified by new fossils and modern genetics.” ...

Scans of ancient fish revealed that the ... function retained in modern teeth. To investigate the vertebrate affinity of Anatolepis, researchers also used high-resolution synchrotron tomography on ...

The lack of hard evidence stems from the fact that fish ... based on fossil evidence poses challenges, according to McCormack. “We know that they fed on large marine mammals from tooth bite ...

A new study from the University of Chicago suggests our sensitive teeth may be an evolutionary leftover that once helped our fishy ancestors sense their surroundings. Researchers studied modern fish ...

Our teeth evolved from the piercing “body armor” of extinct fish, which existed ... found what appeared to be large pores filled with dentine. They compared the fossil to several ancient ...