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University of the Witwatersrand

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This reconstruction of the Late Devonian estuarine lake at Waterloo Farm (near Makhanda, South Africa) captures the life history of a stem lamprey Priscomyzon riniensis. Three individuals representing different ontogenetic stages take a shelter in the meadow of charophyte algae Octochara crassa. Clockwise from right: a yolk-sac-carrying hatchling tucked in the charophyte; a juvenile attached to the substrate in the foreground, and an adult looming over the other individuals and showing its feeding apparatus. In the background, a school of the coelacanth Serenichthys kowiensis swim by.

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Kristen Tietjen

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