Ancient fossil could change the evolutionary theory of fish origins


A tiny Siberian fish fossil that’s a whopping 415 million years old may be part of a group of fish that was ancestor to all the jawed vertebrates living today.

Described online in the journal Nature, the fossil fish, Janusiscus schultzei, could help researchers flesh out portions of the ancient fish family tree.

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