Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish. The shoulder, elbow, and even parts of the wrist are already there and working in ways similar to the earliest land-living animals.
Neil Shubin Quotes on Animals (4 Quotes)
It shows us the stages by which land-living animals were constructed.
What we saw was a real mosaic between characteristics of fish and those previously thought to be only in land animals. The fossil was showing us how creatures were assembled over time to live on land.
It is a fish that shows a surprising combination of characteristics of land-living animals.
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