Manitoba is well-known for its fossil record, including the fossil-filled, world-famous Ordovician-aged Tyndall Stone and the ...

New fossils are revealing the earliest jawed vertebrates — a group that encompasses 99 percent of all living vertebrates on Earth, including humans.

As they started seeing the images from the scans, one of the samples from a Cambrian fossil called Anatolepis looked like it showed the hallmarks of a vertebrate fish.

Before animals crawled out of the sea and spread onto land, the appearance of jaws marked a significant time in the development of nearly all living vertebrates, including humans.

A newfound fossil of a jawless fish is the oldest known vertebrate cranium preserved in 3D. The 455 million-year-old find could illuminate how vertebrate heads evolved.

Sensitive teeth? Blame these ancient fish New research on fossils shows teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of early fish ...

Toothache from eating something cold? Blame these ancient fish New research on fossils shows that teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish Date: May 21 ...

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 ...

Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find by University of Chicago ...