Dawn of fishes (VIDEO)

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters

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The Chongqing fish fossil depository is world’s only early Silurian Lagerstätte which preserves complete, head-to-tail jawed fishes, providing a peerless chance to peek into the proliferating "dawn of fishes".

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