{"id":14693,"date":"2014-06-12T13:27:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T05:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2014-06-12T03:30:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T19:30:16","slug":"fossils-reveal-details-of-jawless-ancient-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/12\/fossils-reveal-details-of-jawless-ancient-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossils reveal details of jawless ancient fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14694\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/archaeology.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14694\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/archaeology.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/archaeology.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/archaeology-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; New fossils are providing critical details about one of the earliest known fishes, and researchers say that helps show how jaws evolved in animals that have backbones.<\/p>\n<p>The fish is called Metaspriggina (me-tuh-SPRIG&#8217;-ih-nuh). Researchers say it grew about 2 inches long and lived widely in North America some 515 million to 500 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The fish had no jaws. But Jean-Bernard Caron of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, one of the study authors, said structures near the gills show what the precursor to jaws looked like.<\/p>\n<p>A new description of the fish, based on fossils found mostly in British Columbia, was released Wednesday by the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; New fossils are providing critical details about one of the earliest known fishes, and researchers say that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482],"tags":[5106,5108,5107],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","tag-ancient-fish","tag-fossil","tag-jawless","mauthors-malcolm-ritter","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}