Thursday, September 7, 2017

Shaking up the fish family tree: 'Living fossil' not as old as we thought

09/07/2017 10:39 AM EDT

the skull of a 250 million year old fossil fish

Polypterids are weird and puzzling African fish that have perplexed biologists since they were discovered during Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in the late 1700s.


Full story at http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/25037-shaking-up-the-fish-family-tree-living-fossil-not-as-old-as-we-thought

Source
University of Michigan


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