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What do these unusual fish contribute to science? Their genetic material helped researchers like Smith piece together a comprehensive picture of vertebrate genome evolution and improve our understanding of how the large collection of genes with our own genomes came to be.
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Photo: Miguel Riopa/AFP (Getty Images) 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. Advertisement The researchers’ paper was ...