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

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

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 ...

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

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

Scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil from Canada's Burgess Shale, a discovery that reshapes how the evolution of ...

Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

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

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 ...

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