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New Skull Analysis of Prehistoric, Predatory Fish

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New Skull Analysis of Prehistoric, Predatory Fish

image: Qingmendous, a 409 million-year-old predatory fish provides unique insights into early the evolution of modern lobe-finned fishes. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 3, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Lu at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "A Devonian predatory fish provides insights into the early evolution of modern sarcopterygians." view more 

Credit: Life restoration drawn by Brian Choo (Flinders University, Australia)


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