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In two reports today in the journal Nature, a team of scientists led by Neil H. Shubin of the University of Chicago say they have uncovered several well-preserved skeletons of the fossil fish in sediments of former streambeds in the Canadian Arctic, 600 miles from the North Pole.The skeletons have the fins, scales and other attributes of a giant fish, four to nine feet long. But on closer examination, the scientists found telling anatomical traits of a transitional creature, a fish that is still a fish but has changes that anticipate the emergence of land animals — and is thus a predecessor of amphibians, reptiles and dinosaurs, mammals and eventually humans.
In the fishes' forward fins, the scientists found evidence of limbs in the making. There are the beginnings of digits, proto-wrists, elbows and shoulders. The fish also had a flat skull resembling a crocodile's, a neck, ribs and other parts that were similar to four-legged land animals known as tetrapods."
There cna be no argument that this is a transitional fossil - removing one of the arguments used by anti-scientific "creationists." This article, by John Noble Wilford, is a commendable piece of science journalism - rather than trying to "find the other side" of evolution, he presents the evidence that exists. As Larry Krauss has recently stated, there is no other side to evolution.Read more at www.nytimes.com/2006/04... (free registration required)
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