Fossil Fish Sheds Light on Transition (Evolution)

[icymist]

By MALCOLM RITTER
AP Science Writer

April 5, 2006, 12:00 PM EDT


NEW YORK -- Scientists have caught a fossil fish in the act of adapting toward a life on land, a discovery that sheds new light one of the greatest transformations in the history of animals.

Scientists have long known that fish evolved into the first creatures on land with four legs and backbones more than 365 million years ago, but they've had precious little fossil evidence to document how it happened.
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[chaumont58]

1. But...but....but, the earth is only 6,000 years old!

I'm going to tell God on these scientists.

[sakabatou]

2. That's a major blow to anti-evolutionists...

[phantom power]

5. It won't slow them down any. The fossil record is already full of

transitional fossils. This is just one more drop of rain off the duck's back.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. God planted this "evidence" to test our faith.

[meatloaf]

4. What a deceitful son-of-a-bitch. No wonder I'm an atheist ; )

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