Sept 28 (Reuters) - For human beings and 99.8% of our fellow vertebrates, having jaws is an integral part of life. Just try eating a taco without them. But, like everything else in our bodies, jaws ...
The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans ...
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Tiktaalik, the 375-million-year-old fish fossil, is best known for its anatomy suggesting it may have walked out of the water and is also a very popular meme. Sung to the tune of The Killers’ Mr.
Male spotted ratfish have true teeth on a forehead appendage used for mating. Across vertebrates, teeth share many defining ...
Gars are the ultimate living fossils, having changed at an incredibly slow pace since their ancestors emerged during the dinosaur age 150 million years ago, scientists have revealed. This leisurely ...
Whole skeleton of Dipterus, an extinct lungfish from the middle Devonian period. Specimen (UMMP 16140) from the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. ANN ARBOR—If you're reading this sentence ...
Jaws stars Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss - Alamy Jaws, perhaps the most famous four-letter title in literary and movie history, was, according to Doubleday editor Thomas E. Congdon, ...
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