Reply #8: They found the fossil of a "missing link" between fish and reptile. [View All]

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The bones of that which "crawled out of the sea onto the land". It seems to have had scales and something of the beginning of feet.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2006/apr/news_7948.html

The discovery of a fossilised crocodile-like creature gives us one of the missing links between fish and land-living animals.
Tiktaalik roseae fossil is a missing link between fish and land animals

The new species, Tiktaalik roseae, has features found in fish, such as fins and gills, and also features that are only found in land-living animals, such as a wrist, elbow and neck.

The crocodile-like creature probably lived in shallow water but had limb-like lobe-fins that enabled it to carry itself up onto land.

'This is the fossil of the year and a most significant addition to our knowledge,' said Natural History Museum palaeontologist Dr Andrew Milner.

'It is a stepping-stone in the water-land transition showing us a permutation of features not seen before, notably the combination of lobe-fins with the beginnings of a neck.'