Current biology : CBAnimalsFossilsBiological EvolutionFishesPhylogeny
A new fossil fish sheds light on the rapid evolution of early lungfishes.
Tuo Qiao, Xindong Cui, Wenjin Zhao, Chengxi Liu, Maokun Li, Jing Lu, Brian Choo, Min Zhu
Published: 202610.1016/j.cub.2025.11.032
Abstract
Lungfishes, the closest living relatives of land vertebrates, have a long and conservative evolutionary history that began over 415 million years ago (mya) in the Early Devonian.1,2,3 Morphological gaps between the earliest known and most primitive l…
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