{"id":748,"date":"2008-10-16T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=748"},"modified":"2008-12-08T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T00:15:08","slug":"fish-fossil-yields-anatomical-clues-on-how-animals-of-the-sea-made-it-to-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Fish Fossil Yields Anatomical Clues on How Animals of the Sea Made It to Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a> of Tiktaalik.<\/p>\n

In a report being published Thursday in the journal Nature<\/span><\/a> that the research exposed delicate details of the creature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head and neck, confirming and elaborating on its evolutionary position as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153an important stage in the origin of terrestrial vertebrates.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d There was much more to the complex transition than fins evolving into sturdy limbs. The head and braincase were changing, a mobile neck was emerging and a bone associated with underwater feeding and gill respiration was diminishing in size, a beginning of the bone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s adaptation for an eventual role in hearing for land animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-c4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":591,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=591","url_meta":{"origin":748,"position":0},"title":"Paging Rep. 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