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Two-faced fish clue that our ancestors 'weren't shark-like'

2015-01-12 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] An investigation of a 415 million year-old fish skull strongly suggests that the last common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates, including humans, was not very shark-like. It adds further weight to the growing idea that sharks are not 'primitive'. The fossil skull's external features meant it had always been thought to belong to the bony fishes (osteichthyans), a group which includes familiar fishes such as cod and tuna as well as all land-dwelling creatures wit…

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