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Missing Link Fossil Discovered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the intelligent-fossil-design dept.

choongiri writes "The Guardian is reporting the discovery of a missing link of evolution. From the article: "Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.""

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  1. A better missing link by corngrower · · Score: 5, Informative

    This link to bbc news includes a picture of the fossil.

  2. Pictures by lifeisgreat · · Score: 5, Informative
    Since the write-up lacked anything flashy, here's an article from the Nature journal about the find.

    Doesn't look very tasty.

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  3. Re:It's not a missing link, and nice predictions by mikeburke · · Score: 5, Informative
    Get them to explain the evolutionary path that lead to creatures having sight.

    Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable. pp 138-197.

  4. Not direct ancestor by Envall · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to Swedish radio this is not a direct ancestor to us. However this find is important since it is close to the trunk from which the mamals is derived.

  5. Land Arthropods were Much Earlier. by giafly · · Score: 5, Informative

    Re: showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago

    Not so. Arthropods (millipedes and centipedes etc) first conquered the land around 500 million years ago and were walking around long before this newly-discovered beastie. Their fossilised footprints have been found. "The oldest body fossil of a land animal is a 430-million-year-old millipede."

    "Our own ancestors, fish-like amphibians, first lumbered ashore a mere 370 million years ago. There they found a world teeming with plants and giant creepy crawlies."

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