For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

A newly published scientific paper has offered new insights into a rare fossil from the Silurian Period, estimated to be around 420 million years old, and found in Herkimer.

Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and ...

A new study from the University of Chicago suggests our sensitive teeth may be an evolutionary leftover that once helped our ...

Little did Barnard know at the time that he had just discovered a new species of velvet worm, now fittingly named Rohan’s ...

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

The German billionaire Christian Angermayer covers his Manhattan penthouse with symbols of his favorite investments. On one wall is a graffiti print of the Bitcoin crest overlaying U.S. dollars; next ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence suggesting that human tooth sensitivity—those sharp jolts from a cold drink or a sudden ...

New research from the University of Chicago reveals that teeth may have evolved from sensory armor in ancient fish.

And the Little Dal fossils are no different. "What we have is essentially something a bit like a Rorschach inkblot test, where there are some squiggles in a rock," says Jonathan Antcliffe ...

New research from the University of Chicago shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armoured ...