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Smart mouth: Chinese fish fossil sheds light on jaw evolution

Reuters: Science - Posted: October 20th, 2016, 5:03pm UTC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bottom-dwelling, mud-grubbing, armored fish that swam in tropical seas 423 million years ago is fundamentally changing the understanding of the evolution of an indisputably indispensable anatomical feature: the jaw.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=4N7EtwEh2ZM:9O_uQh2c96I:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=4N7EtwEh2ZM:9O_uQh2c96I:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=4N7EtwEh2ZM:9O_uQh2c96I:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=4N7EtwEh2ZM:9O_uQh2c96I:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=4N7EtwEh2ZM:9O_uQh2c96I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/4N7EtwEh2ZM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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