Tag: Museum collections
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Fossil Redraws Fish Feeding History: 310-Million-Year-Old Tongue-Bite in Platysomus
Introduction: A breakthrough in the history of feeding A University of Michigan scientist and colleagues have uncovered what may be the earliest evidence of a tongue-like biting structure in a ray-finned fish. Dating to about 310 million years ago, during the early Pennsylvanian period, the fossil belongs to the genus Platysomus. This discovery marks a…