Transitional Fossils - Fish to Amphibians

Transitional Fossils: Fish to Amphibians

The following is a small collection of fossils that show the transition between fish and amphibians. This slideshow is in no way comprehensive; nor is it meant to give an in-depth description of each fossil shown and the differences between them.

This video is simply intended to illustrate that transitional fossils exist, and are abudant.

Note: The fossils in this video are not presented in chronological order.

Before I begin I feel the need to give a definition for what a transitional fossil is:
"A transitional fossil or transitional form is the fossilized remains of a life form that illustrates an evolutionary transition "
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil)


Fossils Displayed (dates are approximate):
[375 mya] Tiktaalik roseae
[395 mya] Osteolepis macrolepidotus
[385 mya] Eusthenopteron
[385 mya] Panderichthys
[368 mya] Elginerpeton pacheni
[360 mya] Hynerpeton bassetti
[363 mya] Tulerpeton curtum
[360 mya] Acanthostega gunnari
[363 mya] Ichthyostega
[295 mya] Eryops

Pitures: All pictures in this video came from searching the internet using google.
Music: Zelda_2_Trance_OC_Remix, by bLiNd, from www.ocremix.org

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[Frab2001]

Tetrapod footprints found in Poland and reported in Nature in January 2010 were "securely dated" at 10 million years older than the oldest known elpistostegids[8] (of which Tiktaalik is an example) implying that animals like *****Tiktaalik were "late-surviving relics rather than direct transitional forms******and they highlight just how little we know of the earliest history of land vertebrates" possessing features that actually evolved around 400 million years ago.[9] ~wkikpedia

FAIL!!

[MrOphachew]

@jonstfrancis --Good point the whole clip reminds me of the "Nebraska Man" incident. 

[MrOphachew]

@Soupthemighty --Good point, but I think it might be lost on the maker of the clip.

[01101100d]

@jojojosmart A wild imagination? You mean a lot of time. A wild imagination is for the primitve tribalistic goat herders that wrote the bible mate :)

[jojojosmart]

Which way you going-  fish growing legs and turning into man or man losing his legs and becoming a snake.? All it takes a wild imagination.

[jonstfrancis]

They're all (except Eryops; a salamander) extinct fish with no evidence they ever crawled about on land or ever "grew legs". Coelacanth would be in your list if it hadn't been discovered in the ocean swimming around like any other fish.

[Soupthemighty]

@ifystube Alligators don't have gills or finned limbs and tails...

[superwhuffo1]

very good...now go much further...search: the dawn of intelligence by kerry craig walker

[TheHatefulDead]

The holotype (NUFV 108) is fully articulated, meaning the bones were *not* found scattered about and "joined together".

Other specimens have been found since the initial 27 individuals.

This of course turns your claim that, "they got other animal fossils from the area and joined them to the tiktaalik head to make a body", into what we call bullshit.

So yeah, go drown yourself in the face with mace.

[TheHatefulDead]

@ifystube

No, the initial discovery of Tiktaalik roseae consisted of a suite of 27 individuals from a single locality. Three specimens (NUFV 108–110) preserve skulls, pectoral girdles and fins in articulation. The individual designated as the holotype (NUFV 108) consists of skull, anocleithrum, basibranchial, coracoid, clavicle, cleithrum, ceratobranchial, entopterygoid, humerus, lepidotrichia, mandible, naris, orbit, parasphenoid, radius, supracleithrum, ulna & ulnare, along w/body scales.