{"id":11695,"date":"2015-05-06T08:31:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T08:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/what-the-penis-worms-teeth-looked-like\/"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:31:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T08:31:02","slug":"what-the-penis-worms-teeth-looked-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/what-the-penis-worms-teeth-looked-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What the penis worm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teeth looked like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- BEGIN EMBEDDED IMAGE --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail pull-right\">\n<figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p><strong>IMAGE:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Ottoia worm taken by Martin Smith.<br \/>\n       view more <i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"credit\">Credit: Martin_Smith<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- END EMBEDDED IMAGE -->\n<\/p>\n<p>The carnivorous Penis Worm, or <i>Ottoia<\/i>, known from 500-million-year-old fossils, was a fearsome beast: it could turn its mouth inside out to reveal a tooth-lined throat that looked like a cheese grater. Because its teeth are less than a millimeter in size, researchers used high-powered microscopes to find out more about their structure. <\/p>\n<p>The investigators found that the teeth had a scaly base and were fringed with tiny prickles and hairs. By reconstructing what the Penis Worm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teeth looked like, the researchers discovered fossil teeth from a number of previously unrecognized Penis Worm species all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Taken together, our study has allowed us to compile a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdentist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s handbook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that will help paleontologists recognize a range of early teeth preserved in the fossil record,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Dr. Martin Smith, lead author of the <em>Palaeontology <\/em>study.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMAGE:\u00c2\u00a0Ottoia worm taken by Martin Smith. view more Credit: Martin_Smith The carnivorous Penis Worm, or Ottoia, known from 500-million-year-old fossils, was a fearsome beast: it could turn its mouth inside out to reveal a tooth-lined throat that looked like a cheese grater. Because its teeth are less than a millimeter in size, researchers used high-powered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}