Hundreds of millions of years ago, jawless fishes swam Earth’s seas, their brains protected on the outside by armored skin, and on the inside by plates made of cartilage. Scientists are still piecing ...
Our sensitive teeth originally evolved from the "body armor" of extinct fish that lived 465 million years ago, scientists say. In a new study, the researchers showed how sensory tissue discovered on ...
What do we have in common with fish, besides being vertebrates? The types of joints we (and most vertebrates) share most likely originated from the same common ancestor. But it’s not a feature that we ...
Since the beginning of time, Earth has created life and then wiped out most of it in catastrophic, ultra-destructive moments.
Evolution of the major groups of fish that we recognise today took place in shallow waters, close to the seashore, according to new research at the University of Birmingham. The findings, published in ...
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