Allyson Evans

The Little Fish With A Mouth That Defies All Logic

• When Allyson Evans first visited for her PhD, those 14 years later, Hernandez knew that time had come. As an undergraduate, Evans studied male electric knifefish, some of which grow obscenely long jaws or balls of teeth that jut out of their faces. So when Hernandez showed Evans a video of the hingeUnfortunately for the hingemouth, the researchers suggest this extreme anatomical reorganization means the fish may be an evolutionary dead end. "Once you've kind of committed to flipping your jaws around and growing a tube, there's maybe not many places you can go from there," Allyson Evans said. S
• Date: Feb 09, 2024
• Category: Science
• Source: Google