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To: TitansAFC
Wow. This is a great find! Now we know how animals went from living on land to living in the seas! Their forearms, shoulders, and wrists eventually gave way to fins!

By taking that one sentence out of context, I can see how one could arrive at this conclusion. But, the rest of the article makes it clear that, with this fish, at least, it happened the other way around.

Now, whales on the other hand, did adapt from living on land to living in the sea. (See: Living whales found with hindlimbs)

792 posted on 04/06/2006 10:22:25 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (Karen Ryan reporting...)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
The nature of the deposits where the fossils were found and the skeletal structure of Tiktaalik suggests the animal lived in shallow water and perhaps even out of the water for short periods.


Now, whales on the other hand, did adapt from living on land to living in the sea. (See: Living whales found with hindlimbs)


It's too bad that the Tic-Tac finders are not as SURE of their data interpretation as others seem to be.

883 posted on 04/06/2006 12:08:27 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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