{"id":215101,"date":"2025-05-30T17:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-origin-of-vertebrate-teeth-and-evolution-of-sensory-exoskeletons"},"modified":"2025-05-30T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:11:30","slug":"the-origin-of-vertebrate-teeth-and-evolution-of-sensory-exoskeletons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-origin-of-vertebrate-teeth-and-evolution-of-sensory-exoskeletons","title":{"rendered":"The origin of vertebrate teeth and evolution of sensory exoskeletons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-origin-of-vertebrate-teeth-and-evolution-of-sensory-exoskeletons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Re-examination of the presumed Cambrian fossil fish Anatolepis reveals previous misidentification of aglaspidid sensory structures as dentine,&amp;nbsp;a vertebrate sensory&amp;nbsp;tissue, showing it to be an arthropod, and shifting the origin of vertebrate hard tissues to the Middle Ordovician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-examination of the presumed Cambrian fossil fish Anatolepis reveals previous misidentification of aglaspidid sensory structures as dentine,&amp;nbsp;a vertebrate sensory&amp;nbsp;tissue, showing it to be an arthropod, and shifting the origin of vertebrate hard tissues to the Middle Ordovician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}