Andreolepis Fossil (IMAGE)

Uppsala University

Andreolepis Fossil

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In a paper published in Nature, a team of researchers from Uppsala University and the ESRF in France apply synchrotron x-ray tomography to a tiny jawbone of a 424 million year old fossil fish in order to illuminate the origin of this strange system of tooth replacement.

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Henning Blom

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