310-million-year-old fossil takes a bite out of fish evolution
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Researchers discovered the earliest instance in which fish took advantage of their gill bones to make a new innovation in the way they eat. A fish called Platyomus evolved a toothy, tongue-like apparatus used to bite food 310 million years ago.
MIT physicists have put forth a strong theoretical case that a recently detected highly energetic neutrino may have been the product of a primordial black hole exploding outside our solar system.
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