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

Teeth are sensitive because they evolved from sensory tissue in both ancient vertebrates and ancient arthropods.

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

Our knowledge about the origins of teeth pertains to that of the entire body, a natural occurrence made up of tissues. But ...

and monitored the animals for several months. The researchers found that the bioengineered teeth developed at a similar rate as natural pig teeth, which is fairly close to that of human teeth.

It’s likely that the genes necessary to form odontodes also produced sensitive teeth in animals — including humans — later ... “This is a real challenge to seemingly obvious assumptions ...