Fossils Reveal the Jaw-Dropping Origins of Human Mobility
The ability of our skeletons to move with both flexibility and stability can be traced back to ancient jawed fish. Scientists ...
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Your Knees and Elbows Exist Thanks to This Ancient Fish!
Our ability to move with both flexibility and stability is an essential trait that defines us as vertebrates. A new study ...
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Scientists trace our flexible joints back to the jaws of ancient fish
In a nutshell Synovial joints—the flexible, lubricated connections that allow smooth movement in our bodies—first appeared in ...
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Ancient fish had flexible joints like humans
Ancient fish had synovial joints, challenging the idea that flexible skeletons evolved on land. Fossils and modern fish show ...
Humans have the earliest jawed fish to thank for their flexible joints, study suggests
The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ...
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The role and types of synovial joints
Cartilage is found at the ends of bones and where joints meet. Tendons attach muscles to the skeleton. Synovial joints (freely movable joints) allow us the free movement to perform skills and ...
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Joints of the skeletal system
Cartilage is found at the ends of bones and where joints meet. Tendons attach muscles to the skeleton. Synovial joints (freely movable joints) allow us the free movement to perform skills and ...
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Research links human joints to ancient fish
Jawed vertebrates known as gnathostomes appear to be the first creatures with the synovial joints, according to Shubin. These ...