Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $1,365
1%  
Woo hoo!! And our first 1% is in!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: transitionalspecies

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Fossil Fish Sheds Light on Transition

    04/05/2006 11:22:49 AM PDT · by planetesimal · 24 replies · 963+ views
    The New York Times ^ | April 5, 2006 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists have caught a fossil fish in the act of adapting toward a life on land, a discovery that sheds new light one of the greatest transformations in the history of animals. Scientists have long known that fish evolved into the first creatures on land with four legs and backbones more than 365 million years ago, but they've had precious little fossil evidence to document how it happened. The new find of several specimens looks more like a land-dweller than the few other fossil fish known from the transitional period, and researchers speculate that it may...