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If we then push to one side the bony ‘ray-finned fishes’ salmon, trout, tuna, angel fish: just about all the fish you are likely to see that are not sharks, the natural group to which we belong includes all land vertebrates plus the so-called lobe-finned fishes.

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If we then push to one side the bony ‘ray-finned fishes’ salmon, trout, tuna, angel fish: just about all the fish you are likely to see that are not sharks, the natural group to which we belong includes all land vertebrates plus the so-called lobe-finned fishes.

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Others have suggested Tiktaalik roseae, a late Devonian lobe-finned fish with unusual appendages that are transitional between fin and leg.

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It was this lobe-finned branch that eventually produced vertebrates with legs, able to climb on shore—in other words, that became our ancestors.

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They trickle sparsely through the late Devonian, the period immediately preceding the Carboniferous: tantalizing traces of ‘missing links’, animals that went some way towards bridging the gap between the lobe-finned fishes that were so abundant in Devonian seas, and the amphibians that later slithered through the Carboniferous swamps.

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Other fossils have also been discovered in recent years almost exactly transitioning the gap between (lobe-finned lung-) fish and “tetrapods” — four-legged land animals (e.g., amphibians and us).

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It was this lobe-finned branch that eventually produced vertebrates with legs, able to climb on shore—in other words, that became our ancestors.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

It was this lobe-finned branch that eventually produced vertebrates with legs, able to climb on shore—in other words, that became our ancestors.

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It is from the ranks of the lobe-finned fishes that we sprang, and we must now pay special attention to the lobefins.

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And before his gap, Romer could see only fish, lobe-finned fish, living in water.

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