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Beyond the Age of Fishes

Discovery of an unusually intact and ancient fossil fish provides further evidence that the search for modern vertebrate origins requires breaking out of the Devonian and into the preceding period.

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Coates, M. Beyond the Age of Fishes. Nature 458, 413–414 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/458413a

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