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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eleanor Sly

Ancient shark-like fish appeared millions of years earlier than thought

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The first sighting of a shark-like jawed fish might have happened several million years earlier than was previously thought, new evidence suggests.

A collection of fossil teeth were analysed by a team of researchers at the University of Birmingham, the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Qujing Normal University, China.

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