Dr. Yara Haridi
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And so they were like, this is dentine.
And dentine is only found in vertebrates.
And therefore, it has to be a vertebrate.
Slam dunk, big deal.
Came out.
And everyone's like, okay, great.
We now know this late Cambrian fish thing, fragment thing is a vertebrate.
But I was like, okay, I want to scan it.
Now that we know it's a vertebrate, let's get a good 3D structure of these earliest teeth.
When we scanned it, I was like, great, this does look like a tooth.
And then I started reading some more and I was like, well, the people who originally published that it was an arthropod are really good scientists.
And I respect these people.
And
What if they were right?
What if?
You know, so we scan some arthropods to compare to.
And we start scanning these arthropods and we see tubules.
Little, little tubes.
And so these arthropods have also bumps on their skeleton.
And we're like, this is odd.