Starting Oct. 5, a new Fernbank Museum exhibit has the institution “suiting up” for a fintastic and fun journey through time. The “Armored Animals” exhibit opens with what Fernbank calls a 500 million ...

The new exhibit showcases some of the earliest examples of animal armor in simple creatures, but a lot has changed in those 500 million years. “This exhibit starts with some of the earliest armor ...

The earliest known armored dinosaur did not just carry a few defensive plates, it bristled with spikes so extreme that its ...

Scientists found several “armored” animals in rivers of Ecuador and discovered two new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative area. Photo from Joris Beugels via Unsplash In a muddy river ...

(CNN) — The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While our teeth ...

In a muddy river of eastern Ecuador, an “armored” creature swam along searching for wood debris to sink its “spoon-shaped” teeth into — or at least, that’s what it tried to do. Visiting researchers ...