South Africa: discover the oldest fossil fish bones in the world
Scientists at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa have discovered a fossil of the world's oldest lamprey, around 360 million years old, near Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
This is an important finding contributing to the study of life formation on Earth. According to scientists, vertebrate fishes but no main jaws, are the ancestors of vertebrate fish, and have the present jaw. Rocky grouper of the vertebrate type has no single function that has survived so far.
Previously, world scientists have also discovered a fossil of stone stalagmite dating to 35 million years.
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