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423 million year old Armored fish shows the early history of jaws - Full story
A freaky fish with a head like a dolphin and a body like a tank may be to thank for human jaws.
The discovery of a 423-million-year-old armored fish from China suggests that the jaws of all modern land vertebrates and bony fish originated in a bizarre group of animals called placoderms, researchers report in the Oct. 21 Science.
![101916_MR_placoderm_main.jpg](https://www.sciencenews.org/sites/default/files/2016/10/main/articles/101916_MR_placoderm_main.jpg)
A freaky fish with a head like a dolphin and a body like a tank may be to thank for human jaws.
The discovery of a 423-million-year-old armored fish from China suggests that the jaws of all modern land vertebrates and bony fish originated in a bizarre group of animals called placoderms, researchers report in the Oct. 21 Science.