Tag: Entelognathus

  • Entelognathus: The Fish with the First Modern Face

    Entelognathus: The Fish with the First Modern Face

    Hundreds of millions of years ago, armoured fish dominated the oceans, lakes and rivers of the world. These now-extinct creatures belonged to a class called Placoderms, meaning ‘plate-skinned’ in Greek. They had armoured plates covering their head and thorax, and they were the first creatures to develop teeth, pelvic fins, and most importantly, jaws. Jaws…