A Tiny 400 Million-Year-Old Fishy Just Changed Our View of Vertebrate Evolution
Don't ever think you're too small to make a difference.
ALICE CLEMENT & JOHN LONG, THE CONVERSATION
30 MAY 2018
Published this week, our new paper describes a spectacular 400 million-year-old 3D-preserved fossil fish, Ligulalepis.
The 3D anatomy of the fossilised Ligulalepis skull reveals previously unknown details of the pattern of dermal skull bones, the shape of the brain cavity, and other soft tissue features (such as nerves and blood vessels) in this species.
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-tiny-400-million-year-old-fish-fossil-has-just-changed-our-view-of-vertebrate-evolution
