Dr.GH
Posts: 2333 Joined: May 2002
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Here is an example, Nelson.
Land animals evolved from fish. Land animals are common by about 300 million years ago.
Prediction: Between 400 and 300 million years ago, there are fossils of fish with anatomy in between fish and tetapods.
Result: Ahlberg, P. E., Luksevics, E. & Lebedev, O. 1994. The first tetrapod finds from the Devonian (Upper Famennian) of Latvia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 343, 303-328.
Per E. Ahlberg, Jennifer A. Clack, Ervins Lukshevechk, Henning Blom, Ivars Zupinsh 2008 "Ventastega curonica and the origin of tetrapod morphology" Nature 453, 1199 - 1204 (26 Jun 2008).
Edward B. Daeschler, Neil H. Shubin, Farish A. Jenkins "A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan" Nature 440, 757 - 763 (06 Apr 2006), doi: 10.1038/nature04639
See how easy that is?
Now you do one.
Edited to undo the last edit.
Edited by Dr.GH on July 06 2008,15:16
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