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Immunostaining depicts collagen-2 (cyan) and nucleus (magenta) at the articulation in the little skate embryo's pelvic joint. (Neelima Sharma/University of Chicago) (CN) — Neelima Sharma, a researcher ...

A new study has revealed that teeth, as we know them today, didn’t evolve for chewing or biting, but for sensing the environment around ancient fish. This discovery pushes the timeline of vertebrate ...

The next time you chomp on a popsicle, then flinch from a lightning bolt of pain, you can now have something legitimate to blame: a 465-million-year old fish. Researchers have found that dentine - a ...

A recent study has uncovered the surprising evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear, linking it to the gills of ancient fish and marine invertebrates. The research reveals that both structures ...

A study published in the Nature journal alters how the evolution of fish has been historically understood. Fossilized fish and other sea creatures have often been pivotal in new scientific discoveries ...

The sound of a dentist's drill - did it make your teeth quiver? Well, it turns out the sensitivity of our teeth which causes them to ache can be traced back to the exoskeletons of ancient armored fish ...

Yara Haridy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, likes to stun people by telling them that our skeletons evolved from a jawless fish. “Much of what we have today has been around ...

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current genetic research. Because .