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This Prehistoric Fish Was Declared Extinct for 60 Million Years— And It’s Still Alive Today
For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 ...
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UChicago study traces origin of flexible joints to early predator fish
The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the oldest jawed fishes had bones with joint cavities for articulated ...
Fish in the Mariana Trench all have the same, unique mutations
Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...
We probably inherited our joints from… a fish
While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...