Tiny 436-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil Rewrites the Origins of Vertebrates

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate features evolved before the major fish lineages diverged. A research team led by Profs. Min Zhu, Jing Lu, and You’an Zhu from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) at the Chinese Academy [...]