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  2. Fish jaw - Wikipedia

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    All vertebrate jaws, including the human jaw, evolved from early fish jaws. The appearance of the early vertebrate jaw has been described as "perhaps the most profound and radical evolutionary step in the vertebrate history". [4] [5] Fish without jaws had more difficulty surviving than fish with jaws, and most jawless fish became extinct.

  3. Gnathostomata - Wikipedia

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    Osteichthyes (bone-fish) or bony fishes are a taxonomic group of fish that have bone, as opposed to cartilaginous skeletons. The vast majority of fish are osteichthyans, which is an extremely diverse and abundant group consisting of 45 orders, with over 435 families and 28,000 species. [21] It is the largest class of vertebrates in existence today.

  4. Chinese fish fossils take a bite out of mystery of origin of jaws

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    For human beings and 99.8% of our fellow vertebrates, having jaws is an integral part of life. Researchers on Wednesday described the earliest-known vertebrates that possessed jaws as revealed by ...

  5. Durophagy - Wikipedia

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    Within the chondrichthyans, horn sharks (Heterodontidae), some rays (Myliobatidae) and chimeras (Holocephali) exhibit durophagous behaviour. They have adaptations to allow for this including stout flattened teeth, hypertrophied jaw adductor muscles and robust jaws to feed on hard prey such as crustaceans and molluscs.

  6. The Fish With Lethal Weapons for Teeth - AOL

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    Once it reaches a small shrimp or fish, it unhinges its enormous jaw to impale the creature and trap it inside its mouth. When it has caught its prey, it shuts its mouth and the little fish stays ...

  7. Branchial arch - Wikipedia

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    In all jawed fish (gnathostomes), the first arch pair (mandibular arches) develops into the jaw, the second gill arches (the hyoid arches) develop into the hyomandibular complex (which supports the back of the jaw and the front of the gill series), and the remaining posterior arches (simply called branchial arches) support the gills.

  8. Helicoprion - Wikipedia

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    Helicoprion is an extinct genus of shark-like [1] eugeneodont fish. Almost all fossil specimens are of spirally arranged clusters of the individuals' teeth, called "tooth whorls", which in life were embedded in the lower jaw. As with most extinct cartilaginous fish, the skeleton is mostly unknown.

  9. Teleost - Wikipedia

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    The lower jaw and maxilla are then pulled back to close the mouth, and the fish is able to grasp the prey. By contrast, mere closure of the jaws would risk pushing food out of the mouth. In more advanced teleosts, the premaxilla is enlarged and has teeth, while the maxilla is toothless.