The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ...

moment,” Hawkins says. Most striking of all was that the new bones required other changes to the fish’s anatomy. “Because development is an integrated process, this one mutation creates a ...

A new study reveals that the sensitivity of teeth, which makes them zing in a dentist's chair or ache after biting into ...

Such joints facilitate the sliding of bones or cartilage ... and little skates (cartilaginous fish species). Researchers examined how joints developed in the anatomy of these subjects.

In fish, the pelvic fins and bones of the pelvic girdle are relatively ... in Tiktaalik and new details of the fish's pelvic fin anatomy. "It's incredible to see the skeleton of Tiktaalik captured ...

The 3D anatomy of the fossilised Ligulalepis ... were clearly osteichthyan (bony fish) characters. The pattern of bones that form the skull roof was an unexpectedly primitive feature also seen ...