An ancient swimming revolution in the oceans may have never happened
Fossil analysis suggests the rise of creatures that could swim was gradual, not sudden

STRONG SWIMMER The armored, jawed fish Dunkleosteus was a top ocean predator around 380 million to 360 million years ago, during the late Devonian Period.
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