New fossil reveals the weird ‘tooth cushions’ of an apex predator from 425 million years ago

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws ...
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Evolutionary mystery solved: Earth’s first animals had no skeletons

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...