Prehistoric fish fossil. Fossilised remains of an extinct moonfish (Mene sp.), found in the Philippines. This species of moonfish lived around 50 mill

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Prehistoric fish fossil. Fossilised remains of an extinct moonfish (Mene sp.), found in the Philippines. This species of moonfish lived around 50 million years ago during the Palaeogene (Lower Tertiary) period. Photographed at the In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, in 2011.

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