Ventastega curonica

[blobrana]

"Scientists say a fossil of a four-legged fish sheds new light on the process of evolution.
The creature had a fish-like body but the head of an animal more suited to land than water."

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[draqon]

Devonian period?

 

[blobrana]

"New exquisitely preserved fossils from Latvia cast light on a key event in our own evolutionary history, when our ancestors left the water and ventured onto land. Swedish researchers Per Ahlberg and Henning Blom from Uppsala University have reconstructed parts of the animal and explain the transformation in the new issue of Nature."

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[draqon]

Paleozoic: Carboniferous: Devonian-Missipian

 

[blobrana]

Yeah, 365 million years old...

"Although an earlier discovery found a slightly older animal that was more fish than tetrapod, Ventastega is more tetrapod than fish."

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[synthesizer-patel]

Yeah, 365 million years old...

"Although an earlier discovery found a slightly older animal that was more fish than tetrapod, Ventastega is more tetrapod than fish."

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so now there's twice as many gaps in the fossil record bewteen fish and terrestrial vertebrates -so much for evolution