Flinders University fossil hunters have unearthed a new evolutionary link to the first bony fishes in another step forward to more accurately understand our distant origins.
The palaeontology team used modern scanning techniques to uncover the origins of a 400 million-year-old fossil fish called Ligulalepis, revealing a 3D model of its ancient brain and confirming the ancestry of all modern bony fish.
Researchers from Flinders University, along with colleagues in the UK, Australia and Sweden, have also uncovered the fossil’s distant link with the bone structure of human skeletons, providing anatomical evidence about human evolution from fish which can today be found within the make-up of our own vertebrate bodies.
Flinders University Palaeontology Laboratory Research Associate, Dr Alice Clement, says the discovery of two 3D-preserved fossils in Australia allowed the team to scan hidden features inside the skull and lead to the reconstruction of an ancient brain cavity.
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