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ALT Fossilised Palaeorhincodon tooth
ALT Palaeorhincodon dartvellei. Whale shark tooth from the Early Eocene of Tselja Gourge, Tunisia.
ALT A whale shark swimming in the ocean. Photo by NOAA on Unsplash.
ALT Photo of fossil cichlid specimen.
ALT Apokryltaros, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
ALT CC BY Dearden Richard P., Jones Andy S., Giles Sam, Lanzetti Agnese, Grohganz Madleen, Johanson Zerina, Lautenschlager Stephan, Randle Emma, Donoghue Philip C. J. and Sansom Ivan J. 2024The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a Devonian heterostracan sheds light on feeding in Palaeozoic jawless fishesProc. R. Soc. B.29120232258
ALT Photograph of the newly named species of Jurassic batomorph: Aellopobatis bavarica; holotype, SNSB-BSPG AS I 1377; scale bar at lower right of image is 5 cm. On the left is an illustration of another specimen of the same species (now lost) from an 1887 publication by Karl Zittel (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40393326). Although specimens have previously been described, they are recognised as a distinct species for the first time.
