Extraordinary 'missing link' fossil fish found in China

Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 07:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A spectacular new "missing link" fossil has been unearthed in China. The 419 million year old armoured fish, called Entelognathus, meaning "complete jaw" solves an age-old debate in science. For palaeontologists this fish is as big as finding the Higgs-Boson particle because of its immense significance to our understanding of early vertebrate evolution.

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