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Nature 457, 234 (15 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/7227234a; Published online 14 January 2009
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Adorned with spiny fins and diamond-shaped scales, the fossilized 'acanthodian' fishes resemble two of today's fish groups: bony fishes, which include eels and salmon, and cartilaginous fishes such as sharks. Palaeontologists have long puzzled over which family these ancient fishes — which hail from the Devonian period, between around 415 million and 360 million years ago — belong to, because few clues have been gleaned from the limited fossils available.
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