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Can you see the "double upper lips" in the pic?

 
 
Reply Fri 20 May, 2011 05:02 am


http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2011/05/110519090356-large.jpg

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Peculiar Feeding Mechanism of the First Vertebrates
ScienceDaily (May 19, 2011) — A fang-like tooth on double upper lips, spiny teeth on the tongue and a pulley-like mechanism to move the tongue backwards and forwards -- this bizarre bite belongs to a conodont and, thanks to a fresh fossil find, has now been analyzed and reconstructed by a Swiss-French research team headed by paleontologists from the University of Zurich. Their analysis sheds some light on the evolutionary origin of jaws. Using a 3D animated model, the reconstruction shows for the first time how the first vertebrates fed.

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Reply Fri 20 May, 2011 06:19 am
You would not see fleshy soft tissue in that picture.
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Reply Fri 20 May, 2011 07:34 am
@PUNKEY,
PUNKEY wrote:

You would not see fleshy soft tissue in that picture.



Thanks

How did the authors imagine that then?
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Reply Fri 20 May, 2011 07:43 am
There are pictures of this creature. Just Google the name.

Scientists are able to reconstruct the soft tissue from just the bone structure. They do it all the time in forensic medicine or at autopsies on humans to solve criminal cases.
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