We probably inherited our joints from… a fish
While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...
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Lake sturgeon
The lake sturgeon, with its sleek shape and rows of bony plates on its sides ... These organs, called barbels, help the fish to locate bottom-dwelling prey, such as snails, mussels, clams ...
3D mouth of an ancient jawless fish suggests they were filter-feeders, not scavengers or hunters
Early jawless fish were likely to have used bony projections ... The reconstruction produced by the team shows that the bony ...
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6,000-Lb. Giant Sunfish Discovered Near Portugal Is Heaviest Recorded Bony Fish in the World
He left PEOPLE in 2023. It's official. Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the largest recorded bony fish in history. When a giant sunfish (Mola alexandrini) surfaced last December near ...
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415 Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil Suggests That Humans Don't Share a Common Ancestor With Sharks, Claim Researchers
The fish was labeled Janusiscus after ... vertebrates would have looked somewhat more like bony fishes, at least externally, with large dermal plates covering their skulls," explained Sam Giles ...
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Devonian Period
The most formidable of them were the armored placoderms, a group that first appeared during the Silurian with powerful jaws lined with bladelike plates ... the bony fish, were covered in scales ...