A new study reveals that the sensitivity of teeth, which makes them zing in a dentist's chair or ache after biting into something cold, can be traced back to the exoskeletons of ancient, armored fish.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, fish had sensory features on their exoskeletons that contained dentine, the material that makes our teeth sensitive today ...

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Sharks, skates and catfish also have tooth-like structures called denticles that make their skin feel like sandpaper. When Haridy studied the tissues of her catfish, she saw that the denticles were ...

A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth.

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.

Human teeth evolved from the ancient sensory armor of fish over 460 million years ago, revealing a surprising link between ...

A new study published in Nature traces the evolutionary origin of human teeth to sensory structures found on the exoskeletons ...

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

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

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