Ventastega curonica
17 September 2008 11:30 GMT
With the skull shape of an early tetrapod, but proportions like a fish, an exceptionally well-preserved braincase fossil of the species Ventastega curonica from the Late Devonian of Latvia is described in the 25 June 2008 issue of Nature. Art (c) Philip Renne and Per Ahlberg
With the skull shape of an early tetrapod, but proportions like a fish, an exceptionally well-preserved braincase fossil of the species Ventastega curonica from the Late Devonian of Latvia is described in the 25 June 2008 issue of Nature.
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