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Reuters: Scince News

Fish fossils plug hole
in evolutionary theory​

 

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By Julie Steenhuysen

 

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(Editing by Maggie Fox)

 

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Wed Jul 9,

 

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Reuters Photo: This undated handout image shows an evolutionary tree with the gradual anatomical changes in the...

 

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Some odd-looking fish fossils discovered in the bowels of several European museums may help solve a lingering question about evolutionary theory, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

 

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The 50 million-year-old fossils -- which have one eye near the top of their heads -- help explain how flatfish such as flounder, sole and halibut developed the strange but useful trait of having both eyes on one side.

 

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For flatfish, which lie on their sides at the bottom of the sea, this arrangement gives them the use of two watchful eyes.

 

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But the trait has posed a problem for evolutionary biologists because no one had found any so-called transitional fossils -- fossils showing intermediate steps in the evolution of this trait.