Video: Exceptional Fossil Fish Reveals New Evolutionary Mechanism for Body Elongation (VIDEO)

University of Zurich

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This video shows how the number of skeletal elements in the vertebral column became doubled in Saurichthys without an increase in the number of vertebrae.

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