Eyes came before limbs in the transition to land

Sunday, October 30, 2016 - 19:51 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The transition to land from our fishy ancestors is one of the most iconic, and best documented, transitions in the fossil record. We know that fleshy-limbed fish living in shallows used their limbs to move in the shallows and then up onto land, and became tetrapods (4-legged vertebrates) along the way. What has been less […]

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