Early fossil fish from China shows where our jaws came from
Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 13:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Where did our jaws come from? The question is more complicated than it seems, because not all jaws are the same. In a new article, published in Science, palaeontologists from China and Sweden trace our jaws back to the extinct placoderms, armoured prehistoric fish that lived over 400 million years ago.