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Published online 9 September 2009 | Nature 461, 164-166 (2009) | doi:10.1038/461164a
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Evolution: Mouth to mouth
Hagfish and lampreys are the only surviving fish without jaws. And they could solve an evolutionary mystery, finds Henry Nicholls.
In the basement of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, two men come to a standstill in the long, gloomy corridor nicknamed 'the submarine'. Philippe Janvier, a senior palaeontologist at the museum, unlocks a door, flicks on the light and leads the way into the 'salle poissons', the room that houses the museum's impressive collection of fossil fish.
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