uh-oh and I meant the *BIG* UH-OH

[underpants]

The fish that crawled out of the water
A newly found fossil links fish to land-lubbers.

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060403/full/060403-7.html

A crucial fossil that shows how animals crawled out from the water, evolving from fish into land-loving animals, has been found in Canada.

The creature, described today in Nature1,2, lived some 375 million years ago. Palaeontologists are calling the specimen from the Devonian a true 'missing link', as it helps to fill in a gap in our understanding of how fish developed legs for land mobility, before eventually evolving into modern animals including mankind.

Plugging the gap




The new find helps to fill a gap in the record of how fish evolved into land-loving animals. Click here to see enlarged graphic.

credit Kalliopi Monoyios

Creatures with features of both fish and land-living animals have been found before. Fish that may have been beginning to 'walk' in shallow water have been found from about 385 million years ago, and fish with limbs that bear digits have been seen from more than 365 million years ago.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Oops

So?

Can I still eat fish without feeling like a cannibal?

[jukes]

3. joanie

ONLY w/ deep sublimation!

[In_The_Wind]

7. *whew*

I've been eating stuff fresh from the sea all week. The last thing I need now is a major guilt trip over my supper tonight.:)

[djeseru]

2. I love the name they gave it.

Tiktaalik. I hope they can find the back-half or, even better, a complete/near-complete.

[jukes]

4. this is SO

VERY COOL!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. This is thrilling news, my dear underpants!

I am always thrilled to see science find the missing links.....

:woohoo:

[no name no slogan]

6. Tom DeLay's long lost relative

slimy, AND crawls on four legs.

[Arugula Latte]

8. Jebus put it there to fool people who

only believe in mountains of facts and evidence instead of real things like people being made from ribs 4,000 years ago!

[johnnie]

9. God put it there

So those of little faith will burn in the fiery pits of hell. x(

Actually, that picture looks like a man's rib.