CT scans of the fossilized skull of Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni — a shark-like fish that lived during the Permian period, around 280 million years ago — reveal the origin of chimaeras, a group of cartilaginous fish related to sharks. The research appears today in the journal Nature. Reconstruction of the early …
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