Archive for March 28th, 2013

New Fossil Species from a Fish-Eat-Fish World When Limbed Animals Evolved

Scientists who famously discovered the lobe-finned fish fossil Tiktaalik roseae, a species with some of the clearest evidence of the evolutionary transition from fish to limbed animals, have described another new species of predatory fossil lobe-finned fish fish from the same time and place. By describing more Devonian species, they’re gaining a greater understanding of […]