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How Long Have Lungfish Been Around?

January 24, 2024 by Diane Mitchell

How Long Have Lungfish Been Around? The Dipnoi first appeared in the Early Devonian Epoch (about 419.2 million to 393.3 million years ago), and the extant species occur in rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia. How old is the lungfish? Fossils of lungfish belonging to the genus Neoceratodus have been uncovered in

A Group Of Fishes That Showed Evolution Toward Amphibian Lifestyle?

January 24, 2024 by Diane Mitchell

A Group Of Fishes That Showed Evolution Toward Amphibian Lifestyle? The Tiktaalik pelvis is a mix of fish and tetrapod characteristics, showing that the transition from water to land is not as straightforward as we previously thought, and that some tetrapod characteristics thought to be linked to the movement onto land first evolved in fishes.