fossil fish with fingers

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:13:54 -0600

There is a report in the January 8, 1998 Nature about a fossil fish with
fingers in its fin. From the news account on the AP wire it sounds like it
is a lobe-finned fish, a coelacanth. It comes from 350 million years ago
which is immediately after the evolution of the amphibians (who also had
fingers). I hope to have the article in my hand tomorrow. It is

Fish with fingers? (Scientific
Correspondence)
E B Daeschler & N Shubin
133

More info can be found at:

http://wire.ap.org/?FRONTID=SCIENCE

or if that doesn't work access it through

http://www.startext.net/today/news/medsci/index.htm
and hit the medical and science news icon.

glenn

Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man

and

Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm