Body armour, permanent teeth and a cousin in Vietnam: discovery in China sheds light on fish from hundreds of millions of years ago

Source: China – South China Morning PostImagine sitting down to a meal of steamed fish at one of Hong Kong’s iconic street food restaurants – pulling out the plastic chair and settling down with a cold bottle of Tsingtao for conversation with friends – but, when the fish arrives, it becomes clear the process would require battling through a suit of armour.If humans lived in China 423 million years ago, this may very well have been the situation for such hypothetical gatherings because a class of fish called placoderms, famous for…Read More

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