Time Quote by Neil Shubin

“There is something else remarkable about the bodies to which conodonts belonged. They have no hard bones. These were soft-bodied animals with hard teeth.”

— Neil Shubin

“Fossils do not require long ages to form. In fact, they must form quickly, otherwise the organism’s softer tissues and even bones suffer decay…

— Ken Ham

“Most living things never get fossilized, and most fossils end up in places where they are impossible to discover. It is impressive that paleontologists…

— Bill Nye

Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good…

— Hendrik Poinar

“Something is always going wrong with our teeth. They don’t last anything like a lifetime, usually. What chain of events in evolution should we…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The first hard hydroxyapatite-containing body parts were teeth. Hard bones arose not to protect animals, but to eat them.”

— Neil Shubin

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence that we use to understand ourselves.”

— Neil Shubin

“It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“amphibian fossils are so rare.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“A wounded animal yet bears teeth”

— Billie-Jo Williams

“Teeth are alive, and given the proper environment, they can regenerate; this is why internal factors that nourish the teeth are so important.”

— Nadine Artemis