Ancient fish once roamed the waters with features that preceded human elbows and knees. Scientists have revealed that our flexible joints can be traced to the earliest jawed fish, bridging the distant ...

This pushes the origin of our flexible joints back millions of years. “The origin of mobile joints in our fish ancestors enabled them to move about and feed in new ways,” study authors write ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago have discovered that these specialized joints first appeared in the common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates but were absent in jawless fish. This pushes the ...

Joints of many different kinds keep our bodies moving, but only if they’re well-lubricated. Synovial fluid plays a key role in movement, cracking joints, and even joint diseases.

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The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ancient jawed fish ancestors, according to a study published in the open ...

Immunostaining depicts collagen-2 (cyan) and nucleus (magenta) at the articulation in the little skate embryo's pelvic joint. Synovial joints are a key feature of most vertebrate skeletons ...

Image credit: Neelima Sharma, University of Chicago The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ancient jawed fish ...

Fossil evidence further supports this timeline, with the earliest known synovial joint identified in an ancient fish called Bothriolepis. The flexible yet sturdy design of our joints can be traced ...

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