Early Jawless Fish was Filter-Feeder, Paleontologists Find

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Early Jawless Fish was Filter-Feeder, Paleontologists Find

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Early Jawless Fish was Filter-Feeder, Paleontologists Find | Sci.News

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In new research, paleontologists used X-ray microtomography to characterize the feeding apparatus of an exceptionally well-preserved specimen of the Early

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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more…

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