Big heart, acute senses key to explosive radiation of early fishes, digital reconstruction indicates

An international team led by scientists from the Canadian Museum of Nature and the University of Chicago reconstructed the brain, heart, and fins of an extinct fish called Norselaspis glacialis from a tiny fossil the size of a fingernail and found evidence of change towards a fast-swimming, sensorily attuned lifestyle well before jaws and teeth were invented to better capture food.

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