Red mullet producing a feeding pit in the shallow seafloor of the Ligurian Sea. (IMAGE)

Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon

Red mullet producing a feeding pit in the shallow seafloor of the Ligurian Sea.

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Red mullet producing a feeding pit in the shallow seafloor of the Ligurian Sea. The new study report identical structures from the Cretaceous deposits of the N Apennines, Italy. Results indicate that the fossil feeding pits are the earliest evidence for deep-sea vertebrates.

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Andrea Baucon.

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