423 million year old Armored fish shows the early history of jaws

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423 million year old Armored fish shows the early history of jaws - Full story
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freaky fish with a head like a dolphin and a body like a tank may be to thank for human jaws.

The discovery of a 423-million-year-old armored fish from China suggests that the jaws of all modern land vertebrates and bony fish originated in a bizarre group of animals called placoderms, researchers report in the Oct. 21 Science.
 

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