Exceptional Fossil Fish Reveals New Evolutionary Mechanism for Body Elongation (IMAGE)

University of Zurich

Exceptional Fossil Fish Reveals New Evolutionary Mechanism for Body Elongation

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The 240-million-year-old fossil find from Switzerland also revealed that this primitive fish was not as flexible as today's eels, nor could it swim as fast or untiringly as a tuna.

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