In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular ...

She'd seen them before, on bones that were butchered with stone tools about 1.8 million years ago, from a site called Dmanisi in Georgia.These were cut marks made by a human ancestor wielding a ...

The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While our teeth ...

Our sensitive teeth originally evolved from the "body armor" of extinct fish that lived 465 million years ago, scientists say.. In a new study, the researchers showed how sensory tissue discovered on ...

While all types of ancient remains are valuable to science, teeth— protected by enamel, the hardest substance in the body—are ...

It could be because of a 500-million-year-old fish The exact origin of teeth — and what they were for — has long proved elusive to scientists Last updated: May 21, 2025 | 19:41 ...

Teeth first evolved as sensory organs, not for chewing, according to a new analysis of animal fossils.The first tooth-like structures seem to have been sensitive nodules on the skin of early fish ...

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ancient armored fish. ... [fishlike animals] 480 million years ago," he says.

The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While our teeth ...

(CNN) — The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While ...

(CNN) — The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago.