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This 275-million-year-old animal had a twisted jaw like nothing alive today
Scientists discovered a 275-million-year-old animal, Tanyka amnicola, in Brazil with a unique twisted jaw. The creature is considered a 'living fossil' from an ancient lineage that should have disappeared long ago.