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4 Januarie 2017 · global · Prince Albert

Michael Coates of the University of Chicago and colleagues: the brain, cranial nerves, nostrils and inner ear are those of a chimaera, not a shark. It fixed where chimaeras branch off the jawed-vertebrate tree - one of the four fundamental divisions of modern vertebrate life. A farmer on a Karoo sheep farm, dead eighteen years, is the author of the specimen.

Wie hier op rekord is

• 1923 Roy Don Oosthuizen

Almal wat die rekord by hierdie geleentheid noem. Wie saam gestaan het, is die duidelikste oorlewende bewys van watter families na aan watter was; as jy van ander weet wat hier was, is dit die bladsy waarop hulle hoort.

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• Coates et al., "A symmoriiform chondrichthyan braincase and the origin of chimaeroid fishes", Nature, 4 January 2017 doi:10.1038/nature20806

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