Piltdown science ping!
Fairly well understood?
They find a few fossils, take some guesses about how it happened, and consider something that happened millions of years ago, that nobody saw or left a written record about, *fairly well understood*?
Still, [Clack] said the new fossils would force scientists — herself included — to reconsider what it was that originally turned fish into land-lovers.
She said some theorized that tetrapods originally went ashore to lay their eggs out of reach of water-going predators or that their ancestors grew legs to scurry from pool to pool. She said she had personally favored the notion that fish emerged from oxygen-deprived waters in order, quite literally, to catch their breath.
Science at its finest, I see. What a joke.