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

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.

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

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

Scientists from Canada have discovered a new species of extinct marine crustacean from 506 million years ago. The three-eyed ...

Scientists from Canada have discovered a new species of extinct marine crustacean from 506 million years ago. The three-eyed ...

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

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds of millions of years ago ...

Paleontologists have discovered a three-eyed creature with a pencil sharpener-like mouth that roamed the sea for prey more than 500 million years ago.

The fossil, named Shishania aculeata, hails from 500-million-year-old Cambrian deposits in Yunnan Province, southern China, a region world-renowned for its remarkably preserved snapshots of ...