Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to cold and other extremes.

Armored jawless fish like Astraspis and Eriptychius and ancient arthropods like Anatolepis coexisted in the muddy shallow seas of the Ordovician period, which occurred between 485.4 million and ...

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.

Ancient fish-trapping network supported the rise of Maya civilization The Maya were landscape engineers on a grand scale, even when it came to fishing. Kiona N. Smith – Nov 22, 2024 1:40 pm | 51 ...

It wasn’t an ancient boomerang. It was, in fact, a fish — albeit unlike any known today. Beyond that, nobody’s quite sure what to make of Pegasus volans. The fish’s ribbonlike body, known ...

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It wasn’t an ancient boomerang. It was, in fact, a fish — albeit unlike any known today. Beyond that, nobody’s quite sure what to make of Pegasus volans.. The fish’s ribbonlike body, known from two ...

Utilizing ancient environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis, researchers have traced fish presence in Lake Redon, located in the Pyrenees Mountains of Spain, back to the 7th century CE. ...