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Fish with Limbs

Posted by michael on from the stop-poking-me dept.

kpogoda writes "American scientists have unearthed the world's oldest arm bone, a 365-million-year-old fossil that provides key evidence that fish used limbs in water well before animals used them to climb up on land."

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  1. Late april fool's joke maybe? by Toxygen · · Score: 4, Funny

    After all, it says in the article that the upper arm bone they found was "humerus"!

  2. Such a positive, evolutionary response by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny

    fish used limbs in water well before animals used them to climb up on land.

    Such a positive and evolutionary interpretation. It is far more likely that they used the arms to slug other fish.

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    Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
  3. I'm Troy McClure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hi. I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such fish-arm films as "Hugged by a Halibut" and "Atlantis Arm-Wrestling 2003"

  4. Re:Reminds me of EYES by Baron_Yam · · Score: 4, Funny

    As someone with eyes rated in the -2.25 diopter range, I'm kind of anxious for the day when you take a pill and grow new & improved eyes... when that day comes, I want the damn retina to plug in at the back.

  5. Oh great. by kulakovich · · Score: 2, Funny


    Now it's fish with limbs.

    Next they'll keep changing the channel and mucking with the volume.

    kulakovich