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This project investigates the evolution of cartilage in sharks by analyzing the 3D structure of calcified cartilage. It aims to enhance understanding of hard tissue evolution and its implications for material engineering and medical research.
Shark’s and their relatives are distinctly unique compared to other vertebrates (including humans); they have an internal skeleton made entirely out of cartilage.
It was presumed that cartilage was the ancestral condition among vertebrates based on the assumption that evolution would be driven toward the increased complexity of bone.
However, recent fossil evidence disproves this assumption and reveals that the skeletal mineralisation shown in sharks (calcified cartilage) is an evolutionary inno…
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