While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

In this study, Sharma and colleagues examined the anatomy and development of joints in members of two early-branching vertebrate lineages: one species of jawless fish, sea lampreys, and two ...

They compared jawless fish like lampreys with cartilaginous ... mobile joints played a key role in vertebrate evolution. Early jawed fish, with their newly acquired synovial joints, gained the ...

To explore this, Sharma and her team studied joint anatomy and development in two early vertebrate lineages: one species of jawless fish, the sea lamprey, and two species of cartilaginous fish, the ...

In this study, Sharma and colleagues examined the anatomy and development of joints in members of two early-branching vertebrate lineages: one species of jawless fish, sea lampreys, and two ...

cartilaginous fish, Chondrichthyes; and jawless fish, Agnatha. The discipline can include the biology, taxonomy and conservation of fish, as well as husbandry and commercial fisheries.

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Scientists have revealed that our flexible joints can be traced to the earliest jawed fish, bridging the distant past with our daily movements. Research on ancient fossils has shown that skeleton ...

Since its discovery, it has been assigned to almost all major jawless ... fish microfossils. This was the first evidence that an arm of the sea had extended into central Australia during the Early ...