Scientists Discover Ancient Animals Similar Faceless Man

Scientists recently claimed to find ancient animals resemble human faces. A prehistoric fish 419 million years old, this animal fossils found in Quijing prefecture, China.

Reported by IBTimes, Friday (09/27/2013), scientists claim what they refer to as living creatures with human-like facial features. These findings reveal analysis jaw, spine, and published by the journal Nature.

According to scientists, the fossils are well cared for and is called Entelognathus primordialis in the group placoderms. Placoderms were the first jawed fish in the evolutionary history of life during the Silurian period, approximately 430 million to 360 million years ago in an area of ​​China.

This jawed animal has a skull and jaw bones similar to sharks. Eliot Barford from Nature News reports, uncovering the theory of hard bony fish evolved independently, forming a large facial bones and jaw creating modern.

"The fish continued to dominate the sea and eventually gave rise to land vertebrates," said Eliot. Researchers say, it is likely that the modern bony fishes ancestral hard Entelognathus primordialis.

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