The Shallow-Water Cradle of Vertebrate Evolution (2 of 17) (IMAGE)

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The Shallow-Water Cradle of Vertebrate Evolution (2 of 17)

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The earliest known osteostracan jawless fish and a close relative of jawed vertebrates sits on a lake bed in Scotland 430 million years ago. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 26, 2018 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Lauren Sallan at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, and colleagues was titled, "The nearshore cradle of early vertebrate diversification."

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Nobumichi Tamura

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