New predatory fish species which lived about 360 million years ago may have grown to over 2.5m long, according to analysis of South African fossils

New predatory fish species which lived about 360 million years ago may have grown to over 2.5m long, according to analysis of South African fossils

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281333

Article Title: A high latitude Gondwanan species of the Late Devonian tristichopterid Hyneria (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii)

Author Countries: South Africa, Sweden

Funding: PEA: Wallenberg Scholarship (not numbered), from the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation. https://kaw.wallenberg.org PEA: ERC Advanced Grant ERC-2020-ADG 10101963 "Tetrapod Origin", from the European Research Council. https://erc.europa.eu/homepage RWG: Millennium Trust, South Africa (no number). https://www.mtrust.co.za RWG: GENUS (DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences), South Africa (no number). https://www.genus.africa RWG: NRF of South Africa (no number). https://www.nrf.ac.za The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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