Evolution fish with fingers Transitional fossils

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One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ago, when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian period, the world was changing dramatically: complex plant ecosystems formed on land, the first woody plants appeared, and the water's edge was becoming a new kind of environment.

The move to land was a very gradual process, and the evolution of limbs wasn't a simple adaptation resulting from animals crawling onto the shore and never looking back. In fact, the new picture of this transition shows that most of the changes needed for life on dry land happened in creatures that were still living in the water. Some fishlike vertebrates had already begun to evolve limbs by around 400 million years ago: They were called "lobe-fins," with fins that looked like fleshy paddles, and they had lungs as well as gills.

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[jbkgjbkg]

@circusOFprecision Well look it up then, the genetic transition that is. It's quite simple and really easy to understand :) What does my username have to do with anything? It's just a random formation of words that has nothing to do with anything.

[circusOFprecision]

@jbkgjbkg

Aquatic salamander, look it up. As for a demonstration of evolution, that is laughable. They don't even propose a mechanism as to how supposed genetic transition took place, and from what to what. jbkgjbkg? What kind of username is that? Hack.

[jbkgjbkg]

@circusOFprecision Since when did salamanders have gills like that? + it shows that a fish can evolve into something looking a lot like a amphibian.

[riskoish]

107 ppl are dumbass christian rapists lol.

[250Gory]

I love fish fingers (Findus, not Bird's Eye).

[odinata]

@circusOFprecision

Are you going to assert your own nomenclature and analysis to the animal?

Why do you think you are more capable than say, oh, somebody who actually studies the matter?

[circusOFprecision]

@odinata

So it isn't the fossil of a giant aquatic salamander? It's some "lesser" tetrapod that demonstrates evolution? How is it different? 

[odinata]

@circusOFprecision

I'm just trying to figure out why you think your incredulity is capable of overturning Paleontology--especially since you've never studied the subject.

"...obviously a giant aquatic salamander..."

Come on, circus. Just say "God dunnit" and get it over with.

Your "arguments" are really just slop.

[circusOFprecision]

@odinata

I'm just trying to figure out why she is touting what is obviously a giant aquatic salamander as some sort of long lost transitional species between fish and tetrapods. And if I'm wrong, why am I wrong?

[odinata]

@circusOFprecision

You quack like a duck.

ID is speculation.

Evolution is a fundamental axiom of Biology.