Did Evolving Fish Cry “Land Ho!” and Walk onto Land?
October 30, 2019
A new study does little to solve how sea creatures could have evolved into land creatures.
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Missing Link Fish Story
May 3, 2005
Once upon a time, 450 million years ago, scavenger fish without teeth or bones roamed the shallow icy waters of Africa which was undergoing an Ice Age. Slowly, over millions of years, they gained teeth and other structures characteristic of more advanced fish. Then, a few thousand years ago, a lake in the (now continental […]
Fish See With Electric Eyes
May 5, 2004
Biologists knew that some electric fish shock their prey and others with weak electricity can navigate with it, but they didn’t know till recently just how much information these fish can detect with their unique sense. French and British scientists ran some experimental tests on weakly electric fish, the African elephantnose fish Gnathonemus petersii, which […]
Fish Gene Gives Darwinists Hope
April 15, 2004
It doesn’t take much to excite an evolutionary biologist. A little bit of microevolution that might be a stepping stone to macroevolution is all it takes. This story almost reads like a Good News – Bad News joke. The good news is that one gene that regulates the spines on one kind of fish has […]
Whoops; Coelacanth Not in the Family Tree
March 30, 2004
Sorry; they looked like they were evolving. The ungainly coelacanth, long thought extinct but then discovered alive and well in the Indian Ocean in the 1920s, had bony fins that evolutionists presumed were forerunners of limbs. Now, a report in PNAS1 says lungfish instead were the distant ancestors of us and our fellow land vertebrates. […]
Fiber-Optic Sponge Makes Deep-Sea Lamps
March 1, 2004
Last year, it was announced that a deep-sea sponge named the Venus Flower Basket possessed glass strands similar to fiber optic cables (see 08/20/2003 headline). Now, a five-member team from Bell Labs has performed the first detailed optical analysis of the fibers. They indeed found these structures to be “remarkably similar to commercial silica optical […]