WASHINGTON — The origins of the enamel that gives our teeth their bite is no ordinary fish tale. Scientists said on Wednesday fossil and genetic evidence indicates enamel did not originate in the ...

The enamel that covers your teeth originated in an unlikely place: the scales of ancient fish. Scientists say they figured this out by examining the fossils of long-dead fish and the DNA of a range of ...

That coat of enamel protecting our pearly whites originated from an unexpected source: primitive fish scales, according to new work published in Nature this week. Researchers studying both ancient and ...

What do you and ancient fish have in common? Well, there's one thing that might surprise you; the enamel on your teeth, the hardest tissue in the human body, started out as tough fish scales. Made ...

What came first, the skin or the teeth? When it comes to tooth enamel, that's been a big question for decades. Scientists now believe they have the answer. According to a study published Wednesday in ...

The enamel that covers your teeth originated in an unlikely place: on the scales of ancient fish. Scientists say they figured this out by examining the fossils of long-dead fish, as well as the DNA of ...

The hardest bit of your body is the enamel coating your teeth. But new analyses of fish fossils, as well as genetic analyses of a living fish species, suggest that this specialized material once ...