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IMAGE: Artist s reconstruction showing the life stages of the fossil lamprey Priscomyzon riniensis. It lived around 360 million years ago in a coastal lagoon in what is now South Africa.
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A new study out of the University of Chicago, the Canadian Museum of Nature and the Albany Museum challenges a long-held hypothesis that the blind, filter-feeding larvae of modern lampreys are a holdover from the distant past, resembling the ancestors of all living vertebrates, including ourselves. The new fossil discoveries indicate that ancient lamprey hatchlings more closely resembled modern adult lampreys, and were completely unlike their modern larvae counterparts. The results were published on March 10 in
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11 shot, 3 fatally, Monday across Chicago
By Sun-Times Media Wire
Austin on the West Side, police said.
The 25-year-old was shot in the leg and head during an argument about 7:30 p.m. in the 5500 block of West Chicago Avenue, Chicago police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office hasn’t released details on his death.
Hours prior
two men were fatally shot in West Pullman on the Far South Side. They were on the sidewalk about 5:30 p.m. in the first block of East 119th Street, when they heard shots and felt pain, police said. One man, 20, was pronounced dead on the scene. The other man, 22, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was later pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet released information on the fatalities.