Introduction / Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen -- Fish as a source of food in antiquity / John Wilkins -- Sources for production and trade of Greek and Roman processed fish / Robert I. Curtis -- The ...

Phainos was the most famous fisherman of his time who lived in the 2nd century AD in the ancient Greek city of Halicarnassus.

In a study recently published in the journal Antiquity, researchers successfully sequenced DNA from fish remains found in a Roman-era fish-salting vat at a cetaria in northwest Spain. The discovery ...

CT scan of the front of a skate, showing the hard, tooth-like denticles on its skin (shown in orange). Credit: Yara Haridy CT scan of the front of a skate, showing the hard, tooth-like denticles on ...

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 ...

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

A new study reveals that the sensitivity of teeth, which makes them zing in a dentist's chair or ache after biting into something cold, can be traced back to the exoskeletons of ancient, armored fish.