Flatfish Fossils Fill in Evolutionary Missing Link
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 12:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a question that initially stumped even Charles Darwin Opponents of evolution have insisted that adult flatfishes, which have both eyes on one side of the head, could not have evolved gradually. A slightly asymmetrical skull offers no advantage. No such fish--fossil or living--had ever been discovered, until now.
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