"Fishapod" Had World's First Known Neck, Study Says
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 15:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The skull of a 375-million-year-old Arctic fossil fish reveals that the walking fish could nod its head and may have breathed air. The discovery offers new clues to how our fish ancestors evolved into land dwellers.
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