Diagram showing the dermal jaw bones from fish to human. The first four-legged animals colonised land 400 million years ago after fish fins evolved into limbs allowing them to crawl out of the water.

The fish, entelognathus primordialis (meaning “primordial complete jaw”), is the oldest known animal to have face-forming jaw and cheek bones comparable to those of today’s bony fishes and ...

Paleontologists in China uncovered a 419-million-year-old fish fossil with the earliest known version of modern jaw and facial bones. The find is standing one evolutionary view on its head.

"The human jaw is quite directly connected to the jaw of this fish, and that's what makes it so interesting." The bones comprising the fish's cheek and jaws appear essentially the same as those ...

Looking at the jaw bones of Entelognathus and Qilinyu we can see that they, in both fishes, combine characters of the bony fish jaw bones ...

This fish, called Metaspriggina, doesn’t look like a game-changer, but it’s the first step towards modernity.Metaspriggina, which emerged 505 million years ago, has all sort of wild ...

Biomaterial from fish scales and frog skin serves as a new graft substitute for jaw bone repair and regeneration. The biomaterial promotes oral tissue regeneration and enhances bone formation.

The species was named Sphyragnathus tyche, combining Greek words “sphyra,” meaning hammer and “gnathus,” meaning jaw for the ...

Scientists say they have discovered a fossil of the oldest known vertebrate animal with a jaw -- a strange chimera of a fish that could unseat the shark as a representative of extremely "primitive ...

China fish fossil reveals where our jaws come from---The discovery of the 423 ... But further back in time, only one other group of fishes, the extinct placoderms, have a similar set of jaw bones.

The study, conducted by Min Zhu and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, used a fossil from the jaws of an ancient fish that was discovered in 2013 and a new fossil.