Mindy Weisberger (she/her) on Nostr: Ancient jawless fishes were weird and wonderful, and the cartilage in their heads ...
Ancient jawless fishes were weird and wonderful, and the cartilage in their heads hinted at the bony skulls that would later evolve in vertebrates.
In my latest for CNN, I wrote about new analysis of a fossil fish head that's 455 million years old. It's the oldest 3D-preserved vertebrate cranium ever found, and fills an important gap in the record of skull evolution.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/world/jawless-fish-eriptychius-americanus-3d-fossil-scn
#FossilFriday #SciComm #science #fossil
In my latest for CNN, I wrote about new analysis of a fossil fish head that's 455 million years old. It's the oldest 3D-preserved vertebrate cranium ever found, and fills an important gap in the record of skull evolution.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/world/jawless-fish-eriptychius-americanus-3d-fossil-scn
#FossilFriday #SciComm #science #fossil