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'Virtual anatomy' imaging yields new insight into ancient platypus fish Sea Dinosaurs, Ear Structure, Ancient Fish, Prehistoric Wildlife, Fish Artwork, Beast Creature, Prehistoric World, Terra Nova, Inner Ear

The inner ear of a 400 million-year-old 'platypus fish' has yielded new insights into early vertebrate evolution, suggesting this ancient creature may be more closely related to modern-day sharks and bony fish than previously thought. Artistic rendering of Brindablleaspis (foreground) with a range of other Devonian fossil fishes. The white shark and human diver in the upper right corner represent modern jawed vertebrates [Credit: YANG Hongyu & ZHENG Qiuyang] A team of scientists from the…

Dunkleosteus was a large Placoderm (arthodire) fish) that lived in the late Devonian period, about 380–360 million years ago. It grew to around 10 metres (33 feet), and was probably the top predator of its time. Ancient Fish, Sea Inspiration, Prehistoric Dinosaurs, Animal Skeletons, Dinosaur Images, Ancient Animals, Paleo Art, Extinct Animals, Dinosaur Fossils

Dunkleosteus (meaning "Dunkle's bone") was a large placoderm fish that lived in the late Devonian period, about 382–358 million years ago.[1] It has been estimated to have grew to 4.1 metres (12.3 feet), and was the top predator of its time and the Paleozoic era as a whole. Dunkleosteus belongs to the Placodermi, a large, paraphyletic clade of armor-plated fishes likely ancestral to all living gnathostomes. More precisely, it was an arthodire, part of a clade which possessed skulls that had…

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