THE DAWN OF FISHES

🦈What does an “ancient shark” look like? 🦵What is the prototype of human limbs? 💀Did the skulls of prehistoric fish share any similarity to humans? ⛏An abundance of fish fossils from about 440 million years ago recently found by Chinese scientists in Chongqing and Guizhou shed light on the mystery of jawed animal evolution. 🪄This video “revives” the earliest jawed vertebrates based on these fossils. 🤩Let’s enjoy the marvellous “Dawn of Fishes”! Learn more: The oldest complete jawed vertebrates from the early Silurian of China Galeaspid anatomy and the origin of vertebrate paired appendages The oldest gnathostome teeth Spiny chondrichthyan from the lower Silurian of South China Credit: Dr. Zhu Min and his colleagues from the Chinese Academ