The first animal to a person a fish

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Ancient fish Brigandine Entelognathus primordialis (can be translated as "tselnochelyustnaya primitive"), inhabiting the reservoirs of our planet about 400 million years ago, perhaps, it was the first in the history of the animal, which formed something like a person.

Remains of this fish - the oldest known evidence to date of formation of the facial bones. Previously it was thought that in the age of Silurian lived only jawless animals like hagfish and lampreys, but the newly discovered fish observed pronounced jaw, eyes and nose.





Chinese paleontologists who have made this sensational discovery argue that the find has both attributes of armor and bony fishes. This suggests that Entelognathus primordialis is the common ancestor of these two classes of animals.

The structure of the skull of fish is much like facial bones of modern representatives of the superclass, but the skeleton looks pretty primitive - most likely because the first animals evolved the head, and then all the rest of the body.

Scientists do not exclude that "tselnochelyustnaya primitive" could be a dead-end branch of evolution and modern fish are descended from other fossil animals.

via factroom.ru