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Why did this fossil fish have an extra set of teeth?

A fossil ray-finned fish described by an international team shows a ‘tongue bite apparatus', 150 million years earlier than previously thought.Platysomus parvulus, a ray-finned fish that would have used a 'tongue bite' to eat its prey. Credit: Joschua Knüppe. In a study published in the journal Biology Letters, an international research team has uncovered the earliest known fish, discovered in Carboniferous rocks from Staffordshire, that has ext…
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