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Published online 1 March 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010308-2
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Gone Fishing
Our fishy ancestors shed some ancient excess baggage.
How vertebrates evolved from splashing about in ancient seas and lakes to strolling along the beach on a Sunday afternoon is a question of abiding interest to biologists, and takes an odd turn in a study of fossil fishes published this week1.
The research, by Per Erik Ahlberg of the Natural History Museum in London and colleagues, describes the discovery of a primitive and ancient fossil lobe-finned fish, and sheds light on a bizarre early episode in the evolutionary history of modern vertebrates.
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