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Derpy from the side and hellish from below, the lamprey is the bane of the Great Lakes fisheries industry. A jawless, bloodsucking fish, the lamprey is often considered an ancestral early vertebrate for its rudimentary morphology and its larval life stage. Now, a team of researchers has authored a new study about fossilized lamprey larvae from the Devonian Period that they say shows lamprey evolution occurred differently than previously thought. This would mean we’d need to change our vertebrate origin story.
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The researchers’ paper was published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. Their argument hinges on the lamprey life cycle. Modern lamprey larvae, called ammocoetes, are blind filter-feeders, which later transform into their noodly, predatory adult selves. Biologists and paleontologists alike have seen that ammocoete larval stage as a relic of early vertebrate evolution, and a sign that lamprey could be relied on as a liv
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