I guess I'd need to go into the lab and analize the data, bones, whatever, to see the connections between it all. Tiktaalik roseae--a fishy 'missing link' By Jonathan Sarfati 15 April 2006 © Ted Daeschler Fig. 1: Tiktaalik fossil. The secularized mainstream media (MSM) are gleefully promoting a recent find, Tiktaalik roseae (right), as the end of any creationist or intelligent design idea. Some paleontologists are claiming that this is ‘a link between fishes and land vertebrates that might in time become as much of an evolutionary icon as the proto-bird Archaeopteryx.’1 So is Tiktaalik real evidence that fish evolved into tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates, i.e. amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds)?
The alleged fish-to-tetrapod evolutionary transition is full of difficulties, explained in great detail in The fossil record of ‘early’ tetrapods: evidence of a major evolutionary transition? What was found? The above quote comes from two leading European experts in the alleged evolutionary transition from fish–tetrapod, Per Ahlberg and Jennifer Clack. Shubin et al. found a 20-cm-long skull sticking out of a cliff. Is it transitional? References. Scientists discover that we all have fish fingers. Fish to Amphibian Transition. Fish to Amphibian Transition Copyright 1997 G.R.Morton. This may be freely distributed as long as no change is made to the text and no charge is made. Original at - Creationists claim that there are no transitional forms. This claim is made over and over as if it were a mantra.
The plain fact is that there are transitional sequences but they never discuss the details. 378 MYR ago- Panderichthys--These are lobe-finned fish. This is not a Panderichthys, but it is a related lobe-finned Devonian fish out of my personal collection. Panderichthyids and all other osteolepiform fish had a choana, a hole between the nasal passage and the mouth. 370--Fish similar to Sauripterus. 368-Elginerpeton is a very primitive tetrapod found at Scat Craig, Scotland. 368 MYR- Obruchevichthys was found in Latvia and Russia but is only known from a partial mandible. 365-363 MYR -Hynerpeton-more advanced legs and pelvic girdle than Ichthyostega. 350 MYR ago. 340 MYR ago. Sarfati: Tiktaalik roseae—a fishy ‘missing link’ What has the head of a crocodile and the gills of a fish? Explore Evolution :: Richard Dawkins' 2009 American Tour.