周氏鸿鱼 / Hongyu chowi

My surprising anatomy complicates your fishy family history—evolution’s puzzle pieces don’t always fit the first guess!
我出人意料的身体构造，让你的鱼类家史更复杂——演化拼图不一定符合第一次猜想！

Sources
A Devonian tetrapod-like fish reveals substantial parallelism in stem tetrapod evolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0293-5
Species reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongyu

Research context
Hongyu exposes unexpected combinations of lobe-finned-fish characters. Its anatomy highlights the branching and sometimes conflicting evidence behind reconstructions of the early relatives of tetrapods.