Walking Fish Reveal How Our Ancestors Evolved Onto Land

Wednesday, August 27, 2014 - 12:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

About 400 million years ago a group of fish began exploring land and evolved into tetrapods - today's amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. But just how these ancient fish used their fishy bodies and fins in a terrestrial environment and what evolutionary processes were at play remain scientific mysteries.

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