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Drs. Jason Downs and Ted Daeschler, Academy of Natural Sciences

Caption: Drs. Jason Downs and Dr. Ted Daeschler, both of the Academy of Natural Sciences, with the fossil skull of Laccognathus embryi, a large predatory fish that lived 375 million years ago.

Credit: C. Frederick Mullison/ANSP

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