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Another fossil find<\/a> by scientists doing that science thing … you know, being in the field, digging up old stuff, analyzing it in depth.<\/p>\n

While an earlier discovery found a slightly older animal that was more fish than tetrapod, Ventastega is more tetrapod than fish. The fierce-looking creature probably swam through shallow brackish waters, measured about three or four feet long and ate other fish. It likely had stubby limbs with an unknown number of digits, scientists said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another fossil find by scientists doing that science thing … you know, being in the field, digging up old stuff, analyzing it in depth. While an earlier discovery found a slightly older animal that was more fish than tetrapod, Ventastega … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-a2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":748,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=748","url_meta":{"origin":622,"position":0},"title":"Fish Fossil Yields Anatomical Clues on How Animals of the Sea Made It to Land","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"October 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In a new study of a fossil fish that lived 375 million years ago,Tiktaalik roseae, scientists are finding striking evidence of the intermediate steps by which some marine vertebrates evolved into animals that walked on land.\u00c2\u00a0 The New York Times\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s science pages discuss a research study of Tiktaalik. 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