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Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

The study, "The Origin of Vertebrate Teeth and Evolution of Sensory Exoskeletons," was supported by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, and the Brinson Family Foundation.

Paleontologists have long believed that teeth evolved from the bumpy structures on this armor, but their purpose wasn’t clear. The new study, published this week in Nature, confirms that these ...

Prehistoric vertebrate fish (top row), prehistoric arthropods (middle row) and modern-day arthropods (bottom row) had structures connected to nerves that allow the animals to sense their surroundings.

This means that Anatolepis, which was claimed to be a vertebrate in the pages of Nature in 1996, is an ancient invertebrate arthropod instead.

Some invertebrates have tooth-like structures, but the underlying tissues are completely different. This means teeth originated during the evolution of the earliest vertebrates: fish.

The study, “The Origin of Vertebrate Teeth and Evolution of Sensory Exoskeletons,” was supported by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, and the Brinson Family Foundation.

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