3-D Model of the Skull of <i>Acanthostega gunnari</i> (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

3-D Model of the Skull of <i>Acanthostega gunnari</i>

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This is a 3-D model of the fossil skull of Acanthostega gunnari, a 360-million-year-old near-ancestor of land vertebrates. The model, which was created by scientists at the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge, UK, differs from earlier 2-D reconstructions and suggests such creatures, which lived their lives primarily in shallow water environments, were more like modern crocodiles than previously thought.

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Laura Porro, University of Bristol, UK

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The image is for single use only to illustrate stories on the <i>PLOS ONE</i> article 'Descriptive anatomy and three-dimensional reconstruction of the skull of the early tetrapod <i>Acanthostega gunnari</i> Jarvik, 1952' by Laura B. Porro, Emily J. Rayfield and Jennifer A. Clack and is not to be archived. Please credit the copyright holder Laura Porro, University of Bristol, UK

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