A trove of ancient fish fossils helps trace the origin of jaws - Nature
2022年9月28日 · A wealth of fossils discovered in southern China shed new light onto the diversity of jawed and jawless fish during the Silurian period, more than 400 million years ago.
Haul of Fossil Fish Pushes Back the Origin of Teeth and Jaws
2022年9月28日 · Haul of Fossil Fish Pushes Back the Origin of Teeth and Jaws. The unexpected finds illustrate life during a critical and little-understood time period
The oldest complete jawed vertebrates from the early Silurian
2022年9月28日 · The dearth of articulated, whole-body fossils from before the late Silurian has long rendered the earliest history of jawed vertebrates obscure.
Fossils reveal the deep roots of jawed vertebrates - Nature
2022年9月28日 · A series of fossil-fish discoveries sheds light on the origin of major anatomical features of jawed vertebrates, and suggests that major lineages of these creatures diverged in …
Fossilized Fish Reveal Earliest Known Prequel of ‘Jaws’
2022年9月28日 · In two deposits in China, paleontologists dug up remains that suggest jawed fish are tens of millions of years older than previously known.
A 365-million-year-old fish with an extreme underbite showcases ...
2024年1月31日 · What paleontologists had believed to be spiny fins turned out to be elongated jaws. New examination of fossils that were 365 million years old revealed a fish with a …
Early fossil fish from China shows where our jaws came from
2016年10月20日 · In a new article, palaeontologists from China and Sweden trace our jaws back to the extinct placoderms, armoured prehistoric fish that lived over 400 million years ago.
Ancient Fish Fossil Sheds Light On Modern Jaws - NPR
2013年9月26日 · A newly discovered fossil of a fish in China changes what scientists know about the origins of jaws. It turns out, human jaws are remarkably similar to the jaw of this...
Fish jaw - Wikipedia
The familiar use of jaws for feeding would then have developed as a secondary function before becoming the primary function in many vertebrates. All vertebrate jaws, including the human …
Ancient fish fossils highlight the strangeness of our vertebrate …
2022年9月28日 · Ancient fish fossils highlight the strangeness of our vertebrate ancestors. Nearly 440-million-year-old finds from China are of some of the first vertebrates with jaws