New examination of fish considered a ‘living fossil’ changes our understanding of vertebrate skull evolution (IMAGE)

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New examination of fish considered a ‘living fossil’ changes our understanding of vertebrate skull evolution

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One of the authors of the study, Aléssio Datovo, poses next to a coelacanth specimen on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History 

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Museum of Zoology (MZ), USP

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