Humans inherited their flexible joints from the earliest jawed fish (IMAGE)

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Humans inherited their flexible joints from the earliest jawed fish

Caption

Immunostaining depicts collagen-2 (cyan) and nucleus (magenta) at the articulation in the little skate embryo's pelvic joint.

Credit

Neelima Sharma, University of Chicago (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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