Re: An end to miracles

["Allan Edels" <edels@email.msn.com>]

Betty:

    Some work currently being done by Ted Daeschler (Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia) indicates, as you said, that fresh-water
lobed-finned fishes evolved into land walkers.
    _Hynerpyton_  (I've misspelled it, I'm sure - sorry Ted) was found in a
fresh-water assemblage.  (370 mya).  It has a very strong shoulder,
sufficient enough to lift itself out of the water (at least its front end).
    He also has a lobed-finned fish that shows eight finger-like bones in
the fins - about where you might expect a hand or foot to be.

   Allan Edels

-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>
To: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Date: Friday, April 03, 1998 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: An end to miracles


>Dinogeorge wrote:
> Just as, for example, the seas are
>> still filled with fish, even though a few evolved the ability to walk on
land
>> about 400 Ma.
>
>why do people believe the first fish to walk on land came from the sea?
>All modern lungfish and relatives are fresh water (or maybe brackish
>water at the most) AFAIK
>Is there a particular fossil animal people point at for this source?
>
>-Betty Cunningham
>