Weird fish fossil changes the story of how we moved onto land

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4 September 2017
Weird fish fossil changes the story of how we moved onto land



By Colin Barras

The evolutionary story we have written to explain our ancestors’ move from sea to land may need a rethink. A fossil fish from this era has been discovered with several of the features of land animals – yet it was only distantly related to them.

Roughly 360 million years ago, one group of lobe-finned fish began evolving into four-legged, land-living animals that resulted in reptiles, amphibians and mammals like us.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146256-weird-fish-fossil-changes-the-story-of-how-we-moved-onto-land/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=life&campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-life