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Caption: The structure of the skull (foreground) of a 300-million-year-old iniopterygian fish from Kansas remotely related to living ratfish is elucidated thanks to holotomography, a technique based on synchrotron X-ray phase contrast imaging (background), and yields the first hint at an exceptional mineralization of the brain (orange).
Credit: PNAS/Philippe Janvier (CNRS, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle)
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