print email comment close Fossil Fish With "Limbs" is Missing Link, Study Says URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0405_060405_fish.html Description: April 2006 article about a report on the discovery in the Canadian Arctic of a new fish fossil that "boasts leglike fins. ... The creature is being hailed as a crucial missing link between fish and land animals -- including the prehistoric ancestors of humans." Includes an artists conception of the crocodile-like creature, showing joints in its front limbs and nostrils for breathing air. From National Geographic. Author: Owens, James Publisher: National Geographic Society Extra Keywords evolution Edward Daeschler Neil Shubin Farish Jenkins Tiktaalik roseae Tetrapods Library of Congress Subject Headings: Animals -- Evolution Evolution (Biology) Fossils LII Database Information: Record 21144 created by Maria Brandt on 04/06/2006 Last modification on 04/12/2006 Published: 04/13/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21144