Human-like spine morphology found in aquatic eel fossil
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 03:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
For decades, scientists believed that a spine with multiple segments was an exclusive feature of land-dwelling animals. But the discovery of the same anatomical feature in a 345-million-year-old eel suggests that this complex anatomy arose separately from and perhaps before the first species to walk on land.