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Amazing Triassic Flying Fish Found

Adam Khor · 2019-08-06 22:59:51

This is NOT an ancestor to today's flying fish, but rather an example of convergent evolution. Apparently, they evolved the ability to glide in order to escape the ichthyosaurs they coexisted with: http://www.livescience.com/24409-earliest-flying-fish-fossil.html

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This is NOT an ancestor to today's flying fish, but rather an example of convergent evolution. Apparently, they evolved the ability to glide in order to escape the ichthyosaurs they coexisted with:

http://www.livescience.com/24409-earliest-flying-fish-fossil.html

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