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Friday, April 07, 2006

THE LINK ISN'T MISSING


U.S. researchers say they have found the missing evolutionary link between fish and land animals: fossils of a strange creature that crawled onto the shore about 375 million years ago.
The fossils, found on Ellesmere Island in Arctic Canada, have the skull, neck, ribs and limb bones of four-legged animals and the primitive jaw, fin and scales of fish, according to a report published today in the journal Nature.
"This really is what our ancestors looked like when they began to leave the water," according to an editorial accompanying the report.
The newly discovered species, Tiktaalik roseae, "blurs the boundary between fish and land-living animal both in terms of its anatomy and its way of life,"
I'd like more research done on the AXYLOTL. Not a fossil, but a living example of the transition from water to land. Within the genetic code of the AXYLOTL is the secret of regenerating limbs. (and eventually organs) HERE is the secret of immortality.

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