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It wasn\u2019t an ancient boomerang. It was, in fact, a fish \u2014 albeit unlike any known today. Beyond that, nobody\u2019s quite sure what to make of Pegasus volans<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fish\u2019s ribbonlike body, known from two fossils from a 50-million-year-old site in northern Italy, has thwarted efforts to pinpoint the animal\u2019s place on the tree of life for more than two centuries. In a new analysis posted August 23 on bioRxiv.org, a pair of researchers says even the most prominent ideas so far are incorrect<\/a> \u2014 enough so to rename the extinct animal.<\/p>\n\n\n