Closing the gap between fish and land animals
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 19:07
in Paleontology & Archaeology
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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