A creepy fish with fingers on the end of its fins terrorized the oceans 380 million years ago. The 5ft-long, shark-like Elpistostege watsoni lurked in tropical lagoons and could be a missing link in ...

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An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins. An international team of palaeontologists from Flinders ...

Research on fossilized fish from the late Devonian period, roughly 375 million years ago, details the evolution of fins as they began to transition into limbs fit for walking on land. The new study by ...

Before the evolution of legs from fins, the axial skeleton - including the bones of the head, neck, back and ribs - was already going through changes that would eventually help our ancestors support ...

To answer how animals made the transition from sea to land, scientists have traditionally looked to the fossil record. But in the past 30 years, scientists have searched for changes in genes that can ...

Dec. 31 (UPI) --Before early marine species could make the transition to land, they had to develop tools for getting around out of the water. They needed limbs. Now, thanks to the discovery and study ...

An ancient fish sported something like fingers that were the precursors to our own digits, according to an analysis of a new fossil skeleton. "It's really the last piece of evidence to say fingers are ...

Research on fossilized fish details the evolution of fins as they began to transition into limbs fit for walking on land. Research on fossilized fish from the late Devonian period, roughly 375 million ...

An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada, has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins. Paleontologists have revealed the fish specimen has yielded the ...