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    Shark mandible evolution reveals patterns of trophic and habitat-mediated diversification

    Environmental controls of species diversity represent a central research focus in evolutionary biology. In the marine realm, sharks are widely distributed, occupying mainly higher trophic levels and varied die...

    Faviel A. López-Romero, Sebastian Stumpf, Pepijn Kamminga in Communications Biology (2023)

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    Endochondral bone in an Early Devonian ‘placoderm’ from Mongolia

    Endochondral bone is the main internal skeletal tissue of nearly all osteichthyans—the group comprising more than 60,000 living species of bony fishes and tetrapods. Chondrichthyans (sharks and their kin) are ...

    Martin D. Brazeau, Sam Giles, Richard P. Dearden, Anna Jerve in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2020)