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Are Ray Finned Fish Jawed?

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Are Ray Finned Fish Jawed? Ray-finned fish have a wide diversity of jaws. The general evolutionary trend in the group is towards more flexibility. In particular, the two major bones of the upper jaw, the maxilla and the premaxilla, were previously firmly attached to the skull and had teeth. What are the characteristics of ray-finned

Are Humans Lobe Finned Fish?

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Are Humans Lobe Finned Fish? Humans, like all mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds, are tetrapods: four-legged vertebrate animals that all descended from an ancestral fish. This ancestor would have been a lobe-finned fish – somewhat different from the ray-finned fishes, from salmon to sardines, that fill the oceans today. Are humans a type of fish?