The American Natural History Museum: Vertebrate Origins

Posted on 31st August 2008 by Ryan Somma in Adventuring

Acanthostega gunnari

Acanthostega gunnari

We vertebrates might not be as numerous as the insect world, but our internal skeletons let us grow big enough to squish them. Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals all owe our spinal and notochords for making us the most advanced form of life on the planet.

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